I think that the interesting direction here is that if enough users
make use of the feature, that aggregate data could then be trickled
back into the page ranking algorithm. It seems to directly correlate
to a page's popularity based on links to it. If, given a similar
query, more users
The search wiki interaction design will be a huge boon to intranets
everywhere. Imagine fixing the results in situ, instead of having to tweak
all that metadata to get a decent result. Finally we can get good first
results pages for just about any search, with less fuss.
Visually, I think Google
Only a small percent of searchers will use this feature though. Is not
distracting for me till now, but I don't use it at all... till now.
Is a good idea, hope the results are getting better this way.
my2cents
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Yep, you address on interesting issue, the new feature dont attract
while it's not distract ( of use user's action flow).
At least, it dont make things worse ( i'm not sure if this make the
loading of search result slower than before, :))
Regards,
Jarod
On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 7:25 PM, Jose E.
I find it distracting and I don't see much benefit for myself as an
individual user - I hardly ever perform the same search more than once, so
why put in the effort to improve it?
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Jarod,
For me, it was a completely natural extension of the search activity.
As soon as I saw the new buttons, I began removing the results that
didn't apply and were muddying up my list and promoting the ones that
I knew were valid results. I only wish it then filled in results from
the
Hi Jack,
On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 8:11 PM, Jack Moffett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Jarod,
For me, it was a completely natural extension of the search activity. As
soon as I saw the new buttons, I began removing the results that didn't
apply and were muddying up my list and promoting the ones
A first step towards something interesting. I don't think it's so
useful now since my contributions won't influence others' searches.
It seems that every service is expanding itself in so many ways that
they will look very similar in the end. Is it what the users want? I
am sure that all this
Have you played with Google's new SearchWiki features?
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/11/searchwiki-make-search-your-own.html
I think Google has done some really nice interaction design on these
new features. They've added some very useful functionality that will
fundamentally change
