[Foundation-l] drive-by site updates

[Aryeh Gregor]

On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 4:16 PM, Amir E. Aharoni
<amir.aharoni at mail.huji.ac.il> wrote:
> The Usability Initiative was announced, but the search box hardly so.
> It was only announced in the technical blog and i actually read it and
> tried it in the prototype wiki, but as the prototype wiki says itself,
> it is not a real wiki, so i didn't see the bug there.
>
> (To avoid any possible confusion, i don't refer to the search box's
> location, but to the fact that it's nearly impossible to use it for
> searching. The location change was part of the beta; a lot of people
> didn't like it, but i am not talking about that.)

Okay, then I misunderstood.  I'll have to let the usability people
respond to this.

> The rather minor (IMHO) change in Google's search box that was rolled
> out recently became headline news all over the world. Wikipedia is not
> far behind Google in popularity.

But it's three orders of magnitude behind in revenue.  :)  That
affects planning and testing an awful lot, alas.