Enterprising times - a case for search best bets
Categorised under: Information architecture, Intranets, Search tools
Nic Price has written a post on search engine best bets, in an intranet context. To quote:
The top 25 search terms accounted for half of all searches. The top 50 terms accounted for 75% of all searches made.
We tried searching for the top 10 terms, including “training”, “expenses”, “ariel” (the BBC in-house weekly newspaper) and “jobs”. The results were worrying to say the least. Few of them returned the result expected on the first page of search results.
James Robertson is the Managing Director of 