On Sep 17, 2008, at 11:58 AM, Pat Hayes wrote:
> The whole joy of the current state of the Web, seems to me, is that
> searching needn't be ad-hoc. I can search the Web for a factual or
> technical question very rapidly and with a great deal of focus. A
> couple of years ago I realized that it was usually quicker to find
> something using Google and Wikipedia than it was to walk across my
> office and take a book off a shelf. The Web has become a better
> memory than my own, and I'm very happy with that. I don't use
> bookmarking much simply because its slower. (01)
Indeed, as a Mac user, with Spotlight and wonderful utilities like
Launchbar and Quicksilver that remember all of your searches and every
web site you've ever visited, I rarely use my bookmarks, even though
they are rather nicely catalogued -- I just hit a hotkey (bring up
Launchbar, usually) and type the first couple of characters of a
desired web site and its URL usually pops up among the first two or
three choices on a menu. After a couple of presses of Ctrl-n to
scroll to the URL I want, hitting Return brings the page right up. As
one who grew up on Emacs and resents having to move his hands from
their natural position on the keyboard, I find this vastly superior to
mousing through a bunch of cascading menus. YMMV, of course. (02)
-chris (03)
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