[Sigia-l] Searching for Search Results Patterns

[Margaret Hanley]

Joseph Busch's presentation at the IA summit does address
patterns for search results. It is the presentation under 
the last point.

Mags

http://www.iasummit.org/finalpapers/busch/ASIST%20IA%20Talk-022804.ppt

 --- Livia Labate <liv at livlab.com> wrote: > 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
> :
> : ----
> : Lyle Kantrovich
> : User Experience Architect
> :
> : Croc O' Lyle - Personal Commentary on usability,
> information
> : architecture and design.
> : http://crocolyle.blogspot.com/
> :
> : "Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication."
> : - Leonardo da Vinci
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