RE: FN-FORUM: What's causing a psychological block?

date posted 28th June 2003 11:21

I'll take a pot shot at this and say that there is information overload, you
used google as an example of indexing the web and I 'think' most poeple
'visitors' know that you type in your words and you get results based on googles
database contents.

What do you want people to do with your box?

Andrew

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>This week I put up the first fully working prototype of my Web site.
>Altogether I had something like 1000 visits.
>
>http://www.stigmergicsystems.com
>
>When I did a Web log analysis, there was a satisfactory spread of
>hits all over the site and about two thirds visited the most
>important part of the site - where I explain and demonstrate a
>"Kempelen Box".
>
>So far, so good. However, when I test to see how many people actually
>tried out the "Kempelen Box", to see the agents and see what answers
>the box gives to questions, I find the results shockingly poor.
>
>Where am I going wrong? What psychological block is stopping people
>playing around with the box? Or, is the whole concept so boring that
>nobody bothers to see how it works?
>
>I'd appreciate some help . Especially from those of you on this list
>who visited the site this week.
>
>Don't try to spare my feelings. Be brutal if you see obvious flaws.
>
>Thanks.
>
>Peter Small
>Author of: Lingo Sorcery, Magical A-Life Avatars, The Entrepreneurial
>Web, The Ultimate Game of Strategy and Web Presence
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