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Quote: people prefer location-based searching over keywords and filenames; better reminding; place files where they will be seen

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Topic:
information retrieval by location
Topic:
problems with information retrieval
Topic:
archives

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This paper summarizes and synthesizes two independent studies … [Barreau 1995 for DOS/Windows/OS/2; Nardi et. al. 1995 for Macintosh users]. … Users in both studies (1) preferred location-based finding … [over keyword or filename search] … information; and (4) worked with three types of … [p. 40] In both studies, users overwhelmingly preferred location-based … [p. 41] Users in both studies across all environments …   Google-1   Google-2

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Quote: personal, computer files are ephemeral, working, or archival; users archived little information

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