[Sigia-l] basic search and advance search

[Nick Hansen]

On Oct 8, 2007, at 9:34 PM, Juan Ruiz 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?

No.  I draw a fuzzy line at the sweet spot between complexity of the  
data set and the utility of my indexing system.  Blobby data like  
general web sites with something as useful as Lucene tend not to get  
any advanced search.  Structured data lends itself to advanced search  
more readily.

When I've included an advanced search with general web sites it's  
been more of a syntax teaching interface for building complex queries  
that could have just as easily been entered in the basic search  
field.  I also like the basic search ---> refine search design  
pattern in these cases.

HTH!

Nick


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