[Sigia-l] basic search and advance search

[Matthew Nish-Lapidus]

Hi Juan,

Advanced search is only important if there are a lot of different ways
to seach for the content.. for instance if all content has a date then
people might want to search by date, same for author, category, or
location .. it just depends how much metadata is attached to each
piece of site content.

But if the content is just basic website content with no extra
metadata then a basic keyword search should be fine.

How important is search on the site?  Is it a primary means of
navigation? or just a small feature to help users find what they are
looking for?


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On 10/8/07, Juan Ruiz <Juan.Ruiz at hyro.com> wrote:
> Is advance search a feature necessary on all websites? When do you draw
> the line to include or not the advance search form on a site?
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> Major search engines (google, yahoo, live) and major e-commerce sites
> (ebay) offer advance search. But other informational sites (ie.
> del.icio.us, wikipedia and facebook) don't offer 'advanced search'.
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> Do you guys always include 'advance search' on your designs? Or do you
> use only a basic keyword search form and then rely on the search engine
> to display the correct results?... I would love to hear your comments on
> this.
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> -Juan