Sunday 24 June 2012

Why, Lexis, why?

Why Lexis, Why copySometimes it’s the simple things in life which puzzle me.

For instance, why do Lexis continue to measure the estimated time of your download in relation to a 56 kbps connection (i.e dial-up)?  It’s been saying the same thing since year dot (oh and it’s always “<1 minute” isn’t it).  Fancy that.

So, Lexis, I think a little house-keeping is in order.  Just get rid of it. 

3 comments:

  1. What I want to know is, why aren't they supporting Opera, the best browser in the world?! ;D

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  2. Why on earth would Lexis want to have a user friendly resource? Whenever I search for information on a Scottish legal term, it insists I really want to search for something else, despite it holding Stair Memorial Encyclopaedia, the Scottish equivalent of Halsbury.
    At least someone's fixed my favourite search suggestion - when I looked for "medium filum", it suggested I wanted to find "medium film". A nice idea (and watching a film is almost always preferable to working), but not much use when I'm looking for the encyclopaedia section discussing ownership of rivers!
    Stupid, stupid Lexis.

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  3. Andro - I use the Opera browser exclusively on my Android phone... definitely the best out there atm. I even tried the Windows version recently. It was, erm, fine - but I don't know if that's good enough to take the fight to the big 3.

    Dumpling - good question. Lexis clearly go out of their way to make their user interface as unfriendly as possible (no doubt so they can milk IT training classes as an aftermarket). ;-)

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