Re: ibm dot com search in System i pages

["Jim Franz" <franz400@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Did you try Google/Advance and whatever your search criteria is and then
> ibm.com as the Domain to search ?

The google search works correctly. It is IBM's own search within ibm.com 
that is putting on the search result screen a mixture of data that should 
not be together....
It would be like searching for "system i" and getting a link that says 
"system i is the greatest modem ever built" because system i and modem 
somewhere are on the same page. What I fear is that IBM has made an attempt 
to do something "smart" and the result is highly inaccurate. If I were a 
large business partner and and the search associated my solution with 
another vendor's product (or visa-versa) I would be very upset.. In one case 
I saw, a small partner's search results were combined with a customer story 
of a SAP installation (and SAP was not mentioned in the search result).
Now - i am talking only about Search Results, not the stories themselves. I 
have reported this via website feedback.
jim

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chuck Lewis" <chuck.lewis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2006 8:35 AM
Subject: RE: ibm dot com search in System i pages


> Jim,
>
> Did you try Google/Advance and whatever your search criteria is and then
> ibm.com as the Domain to search ?
>
> Chuck
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jim Franz
> Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2006 10:32 PM
> To: MIDRANGE-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: ibm dot com search in System i pages
>
> I have never been a fan of IBM's website search, often not finding what I
> know is there.
> I was looking for the page of IBM ads  with customer's talking about how
> much they love the iSeries (System i) for a specific ad. I tried the
> customer's company name (a single word that would be fairly unique, no
> special characters - not found. I tried the Business Partner's name and 
> the
> search result page had 9 links with a short paragraph under each link. But
> none of the paragraphs had much to do with the BP, and it made it appear
> this BP was responsible for what many other companies had done, and linked
> them to other customer stories they had nothing to do with. Someone's web
> crawler had lumped and scrambled much of this together into semi-sensible
> phrases that were very wrong. Did the view-source for the page and html 
> was
> normal and not at all like search results.
> I tried several other search attempts and either got no search results 
> (for
> names that are clearly on the page) or scrambled descriptions.
> It's kind of sad when one of the biggest e-commerce companies in the world
> can't do "search".
> jim
>
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