Findability is a term for the ease with which information contained on a
website can be found, both from outside the website (using
search engines and the like) and by users already on the website. Although findability has relevance outside the
World Wide Web, the term is usually used in that context. Most relevant websites do not come up in the top results because designers and engineers do not cater to the way ranking algorithms work currently. Its importance can be determined from the first law of
e-commerce, which states "If the user can’t find the product, the user can’t buy the product." As of December 2014, out of 10.3 billion monthly
Google searches by Internet users in the
United States, an estimated 78
re made to research products and services online.