OPINION19 November 2018
Limited choice of online interfaces
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OPINION19 November 2018
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Rory Sutherland questions whether internet searches would be improved if randomness was incorporated.
In 2001, my wife and I did something very strange. We sold our flat in London and moved to a flat near Sevenoaks.
The only strange word in that sentence is the second occurrence of the word ‘flat’. Most people who move out of London use it as an opportunity to buy a house.
As it happens, we found the place in a copy of The Week. There was a two-page feature on apartments for sale in listed buildings and we took a look. We were hooked.
But had we gone about searching on the internet, not in a magazine, there is almost no chance we would have learned of it. Instead, on arriving at Rightmove.com, we would have been asked ‘house or flat’. We would have clicked on ‘house’ and been shown no further properties that weren’t houses.
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