Restaurant reviews are more properly considered as a database than as a series of articles, and users should access them in a table-driven search and/or be informed personally when a restaurant appears that has a high similarity score with other restaurants preferred by each individual user.
Predictor: Nielsen, Jakob
Prediction, in context:In a 1995 column on online publishing, Jakob Nielsen writes:”Restaurant reviews are more properly considered as a database than as a series of articles, and users should access them in a table-driven search and/or be informed personally when a restaurant appears that has a high similarity score with other restaurants preferred by each individual user.”
Biography:Jakob Nielsen labeled himself as an “Internet User Advocate” and built a reputation as a speaker and writer in that area. He co-founded the Nielsen Norman Group with Donald A. Norman (a former VP of research at Apple Computer). In the early 1990s, he was an engineer at Sun Microsystems. He invented and patented a number of Internet usability methods. (Research Scientist/Illuminator.)
Date of prediction: August 1, 1995
Topic of prediction: Getting, Sharing Information
Subtopic: General
Name of publication: Alertbox
Title, headline, chapter name: Directions for Online Publishing
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/9508.html
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Anderson, Janna Quitney