[Sigia-l] Faceted Search - non-library, non ecommerce sites

Timo Kouwenhoven timo.kouwenhoven at gmail.com
Sun Jun 3 06:51:55 EDT 2007


Check research done by Prof. Marti Hearst's team at Univ. of Berkeley,
lots to learn from her Flamenco project

Best

Timo

2007/6/2, Jared M. Spool <jspool at uie.com>:
>
> On May 29, 2007, at 3:52 PM, Katie Ware wrote:
>
> > I'm particularly interested in any user studies/observations. I am
> > curious about how users actually use it - or if they do. And I
> > don't have time to do extensive research, although I will try to
> > fit some guerilla testing in. I do have an assumption - which could
> > very well be wrong :-) - that having numerous filter options for a
> > search is not unlike "advanced" search. Which we have found that
> > many users don't bother to use. The google effect, as it were. Just
> > give me a text box and a button.
>
> Hi Katie,
>
> I'd give Pete Bell at Endeca a call. They've done a lot in this area.
>
> Jared
>
> Jared M. Spool
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