Keeping Found Things Found: Web Tools Don't Always Mesh With How People Work Ascribe (Dec 17) A study by William Jones and Harry Bruce at the University of Washington's Information School and Susan Dumais of Microsoft Research shows that people prefer to rely on their memories to refind information than tools. "... regardless of your "keeping" technique, Jones, Bruce and Dumais have found that, when you want to revisit a Web site, there's a good chance you first try three other options: directly entering the URL in your Web browser (often with help from the browser's autocompletion feature); searching with a search engine; or accessing it via another Web site or portal." That certainly describes what I do.
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