[Sigia-l] Searching for Search Results Patterns

[Livia Labate]

looking for search/query result display/pattern/presentation also didn't get
me anything interesting. The two places I thought I'd find what you were
looking for address search but not their results. Still worth looking
though:

http://www.webdesignpractices.com
http://www.eleganthack.com/widgetopia/



----- Original Message ----- 
From: <Lyle_Kantrovich at cargill.com>
To: <sigia-l at asis.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2004 12:47 PM
Subject: [Sigia-l] Searching for Search Results Patterns


: Has anyone compiled a list of search results patterns and/or examples of
: ways to present results?  I'm thinking of things like "best bets" or
: categorized results, spelling recommendations, "Did you mean" options,
: ways to navigate across a result set, etc.  I've done a lot of searching
: around the way, but to little avail.
:
: In looking for this kind of info, it's interesting that searching for
: things related to "search" is difficult - often because the search box
: label text is also indexed by the search engine used. For example:
:
: Searching for "search" on IAWiki:
: http://www.iawiki.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?search=search&dosearch=1
:
: Searching for "search" in the SIGIA-L archives:
:
http://www.info-arch.org/lists/search.php?query=search&metaname=swishdefault&sort=sent
:
:
: Other things I've tried:
:
: Searching Google for "search results patterns":
:
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=search+results+patterns
: (I also tried '"search results" design' and a number of other queries
: with little success.)
:
: Avi's Search Tools site has some good info, but not really a list of
: patterns or a collection of examples:
: http://www.searchtools.com/
:
:
: Is this a gap in existing online content?  Does the IA community NOT
: have a place where we at least document different types of searches and
: ways to display results if not "best practices" or patterns?
:
: Any pointers would be appreciated.  My gut tells me someone's done this
: work before...  It also seems that the presentation of search results is
: evolving as the engines available get more features and get more
: sophisticated.
:
:
: Regards,
:
: Lyle
:
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