[Sigia-l] a word or two that means 'go to advanced search'

[Avi Rappoport]

I like "search options", which seems to open up possibilities without 
imposing the scary "advanced" word.  Please note that even search 
experts have learned to do short queries and rarely use advanced 
search features (partly because they often don't work, how I wish 
Google could get smarter about dates).

  As you say, no one likes to keep clicking instead of seeing results, 
so you don't want to put a filter in between them and the results 
items.  But Marti Hearst and other UI researchers report that showing 
search results *and* filter options provides the best combination to 
encourage people to use more features.

Hope that helps,

Avi

At 7:41 AM -0800 12/10/02, Lorelei Brown wrote:
>Hello everyone --
>
>I'm looking for a one or two word phrase that means
>'go to advanced search' that will direct users to link
>from a keyword search box to an area that will let
>them choose more detailed parameters.
>
>'Advanced search' has not tested well with our
>audience (primary and secondary school teachers) so
>we're looking for something else. We're all so
>entrenched in our web world that we can't think of
>anything simple and intuitive.
>
>We've also decided against going with the filter
>results method, since our audience loses interest when
>they have to click too much.
>
>Can anyone else think of something short and sweet?

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