60 Months, Minimal Search Progress
Stephen E Arnold revises his August 2005 observation:
The truth is that nothing associated with locating information is cheap, easy or fast.
to read:
The truth is that nothing associated with locating information is accurate, cheap, easy or fast.
Which reminds me of the project triangle, where the choices are cheap, fast, good and you can pick any two.1.
In fact, I created an Euler diagram of the four choices:
I got stuck when it came to adding “easy.”
In part because I don’t know “easy” for who? Easy for the search engine user? Easy for the end-user?
If easy for the end-user, is that a continuum? If so, what lies at both ends?
Having a single text box may be “easy” for the end-user but how does that intersect with “accurate?”
Suggestions? Pen is in your hand now.
1. PMI has withdrawn the 50 year old triangle on the basis that project’s have more constraints that interact than just three. On which see: The Death of the Project Management Triangle by Ben Synder.