Definitions
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- noun information science The quality of a particular object being
locatable . - noun information science The quality of a whole system being
navigable .
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Examples
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The fundamental goal of findability is to persistently connect your audience with the stuff you write, design, and build.
Web Teacher › Findability: Is your blog as findable as possible? 2008
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Because ambient findability is less about the computer than the complex interactions between humans and information.
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As audiences continue to fragment, congeal, fragment again and re-congeal (if that's a word), the concept of "findability" - both for advertisers in finding the right audience at the right price and for publishers finding the right advertisers for their audience - becomes overwhelmingly essential.
Adotas 2009
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As audiences continue to fragment, congeal, fragment again and re-congeal (if that's a word), the concept of "findability" - both for advertisers in finding the right audience at the right price and for publishers finding the right advertisers for their audience - becomes overwhelmingly essential.
Adotas 2009
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But "findability" itself raises all kinds of practical questions:
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Chris Anderson, the author of the book and the article, clearly demonstrates the economic value of "findability" and in this case via recommendations.
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As is the notion of "findability" so prevalent among the "semantic web" - heads.
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As is the notion of "findability" so prevalent among the "semantic web" - heads.
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Twitter's searchability has made us think more about our own "findability" and altered the way we post jobs.
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Twitter's searchability has made us think more about our own "findability" and altered the way we post jobs.
john commented on the word findability
As in Ambient Findability, a very interesting notion laid out by Peter Morville in the book of the same name.
January 15, 2007