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Re: breadcrumb navigation

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From: Austin, Darrel
Date: Nov 29, 2004 8:24AM

> I am finally working on a badly needed facelift for my own site, and
> I'm wondering at what point do breadcrumbs actually become useful.

From what I've read, general populace rarely uses them when observed in user
testing scenearios. Of course, I don't have any links to said reading, so I
suppose that comment doesn't carry much weight.

I think anyone deeply involved with web development finds them quite useful,
but, even though I also implement them on larger sites, I'm really not sure
if it is a primary navigation tool for most folks.

-Darrel