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==History== [[Heather Lutze]] is thought to have created the term in the early 2000s.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/liz-wainger/the-shtickiness-factor_b_3471675.html | title=The Shtickiness Factor |last1=Wainger | first1=Liz | work=The Huffington Post | date=20 June 2013 | access-date=12 September 2013}}</ref> The popularization of the term ''findability'' for the Web is usually credited to [[Peter Morville]].{{citation needed|date=April 2015}} In 2005 he defined it as: "the ability of users to identify an appropriate Web site and navigate the pages of the site to discover and retrieve relevant information resources", though it appears to have been first coined in a public context referring to the web and information retrieval by Alkis Papadopoullos in a 2005 article entitled "Findability".<ref>{{cite journal|author=Alkis Papadopoulos|title=The Key to Enterprise Search|journal=KM World|date=April 1, 2005|url=http://news-business.vlex.com/vid/findability-key-to-enterprise-search-62406335}}</ref><ref>Though the word has been used to mean "ease of finding information" since at least 1943: see Urban A. Avery, "The 'Findability' of the Law", ''Chicago Bar Record'' '''24''':272, April 1943, reprinted in the ''Journal of the American Judicature Society'' '''27''':25 [http://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?collection=journals&handle=hein.journals/judica27&div=12&id=&page=]</ref>
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