Poor search results on W3.org

By Kristoffer Bohmann, Bohmann Usability

Searching on the World Wide Web Consortium website is painful since search results lack relevance. Try this. Search for "HTML" (or anything else) using the official search on W3.org and you will get an irrelevant document as top search result.

Better solution: Use Google to search the site and you get the correct document. W3.org's usability mistake probably happen due to incorrect configuration of the site search.

By the way, users can/should make two choices before doing a "simple public search" on W3.org. I am worried if this is W3's idea of simplicity... I would call it performance overkill.

Kristoffer Bohmann

Poor search results on W3.org

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