[Sigia-l] search results and thesauri

[Avi Rappoport]

Amazon has (or had at one point) a nice solution for this: they had a 
link for "why did I get these results?" which avoids cluttering the 
page and yet provides a way to understand the process.

Avi

At 3:29 PM -0700 5/24/02, Tal Herman wrote:
>
>I think that I have to disagree with Andrew on this one.  I'll admit that as
>an IA, it offends my sensibilities not to reveal to the searcher the tricks
>that I'm using to get them the results for their search.  On the other hand,
>it's my obligation to provide the searcher with as good a results set as
>possible without distracting them with unnecessary information.  In the case
>of the particular application we're talking about here, the results set
>includes the titles of relevant books authored, papers presented, and
>courses taught by the scholar(s) whose names are returned in response to the
>query, and this additional information provides the context for the
>journalist to make the decision about whom to contact.

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