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Searching is a common interface to the Web.
Designing for Search Engines and Stars
http://www.digital-web.com/tutorials/tutorial_2001-4.shtml
Good page design for people and machines at the same time.
Destination: Digital Web Magazine (6)
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Kaiser, Shirley (1)
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April 13, 2001
The Fundamentals of Quality Search
http://www.clickz.com/design/site_design/article.php/835571
Importance of metadata and some tips for good search design.
Destination: ClickZ (31)
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McGovern, Gerry (3)
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January 18, 2001
http://www.bohmann.dk/articles/effective_search_results.html
http://www.bohmann.dk/articles/effective_search_results.html
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Bohmann, Kristoffer (5)
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October 10, 2000
So You Think You Need an In-Site Search Engine?
http://www.grokdotcom.com/in-sitesearchengines.htm
Make your design more effective than searching.
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August 1, 2000
Simplify & Sort for Better Searches
http://www.smartisans.com/articles/web_search.aspx
Search advice with examples.
Borders, CDNow and Barnes & Noble and others are used as examples for search tips:
- Make search easy to find on every page
- Anticipate questions
- Search results need to have just the right amount of information
- Let users re-organize the results
By Constance Petersen.
Destination: Designing Ways (10)
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Petersen, Constance (10)
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May 15, 2000
Web search results still have human touch
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-234893.html
Humans help make usable search results.
A CNET news article about the trend toward customizing and rigging search results. Companies are giving up on the pure technology approach and adding human editors to search engines and directories.
December 27, 1999, by Paul Festa.
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December 27, 1999
Guide to Site Search Tools
http://www.searchtools.com/info/guide.html
Destination: Search Tools (3)
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July 18, 1999
Search Tools: Information Architecture
http://www.searchtools.com/related/info-architecture.html
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Destination: Search Tools (3)
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April 14, 1999
What People Search For
http://searchenginewatch.com/facts/searches.html
Links to live displays and keyword lists from search engines.
January 9, 1999
What's Wrong with Internet Searching
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/march97/bt/03pollock.html
Study of users and first exposure to a search engine.
Results: users need some understanding of basic Internet concepts in order to carry out successful searches.
Paper first presented at Designing for the Web: Empirical Studies. Republished in DLib magazine, March 1997.
August 12, 1997
Search Usability
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/9707b.html
Advice for search interfaces.
User testing of searching leads to these guidelines from Jakob Nielsen:
Search button on every page
Global, not scoped search
Simple, non-boolean search as the default
Alertbox for July 15, 1997.
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Nielsen, Jakob (116)
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July 16, 1997
Clarifying Search: a User Interface Framework for Text Searches
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january97/retrieval/01shneiderman.html
Four-phase framework for designing search user interfaces.
From DLib. By Ben Shneiderman and others.
January 31, 1997
Signal Detection Analysis of WWW Search Engines
http://www.microsoft.com/usabi ... nf/schlichting/schlichting.htm
Comparison of several search engines.
The top 10 results of several keyword searches evaluated. Hits and misses reported, along with a sensitvity rating.
Destination: HFWeb Proceedings (13)
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September 16, 1996
SearchTools.com: Related Topics: User Experience
http://www.searchtools.com/related/user-interface.html
Destination: Search Tools (3)
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Building Search Smarts
http://taxonomist.tripod.com/o ... es/Building_Search_Smarts.html
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Maislin, Seth (2)
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