dimanche 12 juillet 2009

4.2.4 A better knowledge of the World Wide Web

We have seen so far how to take the best of search engines and the technological evolution of the Web. We however did not took into consideration a simple fact evoked in chapter 4.1.5 regarding the coverage of the visible web of search engines.
The Internet is exactly as our physical world, it has its most visited and popular places and this among each countries.
The issue is that most of Internet users sticks to a couple of them and are not developing their true search potential.
This can be fixed by considering the Internet as a world map.
Each year the website: http://informationarchitects.jp/start/ is providing a map of the most visited and famous websites in the world divided by category.
world trend map 2008
2008 Web trend map

world trend map 2007
2007 Web trend map

Such representation of the world wide web allow Internet users to know what are the most popular websites within a specific categories. We saw in chapter 3.2.2 that Internet users trust more their favorite websites and well media established web-sites than search engines.
Knowing what are those most famous websites through those maps is one solution to improve data quality and solve the search engine dependency state.

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