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11/22/2004

IA terminology: the paraphrase problem

Filed under: Information architecture — Peter @ 10:21 pm

The “paraphrase problem” is when a user adopts terms different than the terms used in the document they are looking for.

For example, a user might search for “laptop” but on your website these things are always called “notebooks”, so neither through the search nor through browsing can the user find it.

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