I'm really enjoying this discussion. To my mind it depends on the
degree of complexity and context of information within the site to
create a balance of search methods.
Related to context, users using search is inversely proportional to
context. The greater the context the users' need affords (a s
>
> It's a matter of the nature of the content. If people know unique
> identifiers (exact titles, authors, part numbers), then search will always
> trump any category hierarchy or facets. That's why media products (such as
> books and music) do well with search.
>
> However, search on data where t
As a somewhat interesting tangent... when I was working in portal world we
introduced vertical or channel specific search. As almost an after thought
we included sponsored links. The revenue stream turn out to be wildly beyond
our expectations. Were we new to the indexing process... and as we got
b
This may just be my bias after designing both search and taxonomy
systems for a few really big companies, but I doubt that searching is
actually replacing browsing. Rather, it seems that search technology
has improved such that searching is finding its proper niche in the
user experience.
While r
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On Sep 24, 2009, at 9:18 AM, Peter Morville wrote:
> I agree that large corporate (and .edu and .gov)
On Sep 24, 2009, at 9:18 AM, Peter Morville wrote:
I agree that large corporate (and .edu and .gov) websites should at
least
seriously consider migrating to a search-centered strategy.
I predict this will fail.
Browsing rarely scales well.
Nothing scales well, but I believe a well tuned
Subject: [IxDA Discuss] Toward a search dominant wayfinding paradigm
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Hi all,
For the past several months I have been perseverating on the concept of
creating a search-dominant wayfinding system for my web site: Adobe.com.
Why, you may ask? My thought (and I know Jared, at minimum will
