[Sigia-l] search results page

[mckenna]

Hi folks:

I really enjoy the discussions on this list.  :)

IF you had to name your top ten best pratices for how search results should be displayed, what would you say?  My list so far:
- Show the query terms at the top/bottom of the result list (or thereabouts)
- Show the number of results, and the number of results per page of results (i.e., Displaying 1-20 of 497...)
- Show Concordance, and bold terms that are matches from the query
- Show size of pages in result set (especially if they're a PDF, Word Doc, etc.)
- Show URL to result
- Show icon or other identifier of result document type (HTML, PDF, XLS, etc.)
- Do spell checking
- Page the result set, and offer links to go directly to the previous/next page, as well as the next few pages (i.e., 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5, etc.)
- Have a new search form on each results page, and pre-populate the query field with the last query.
- Any category selection pull downs/checkboxes/radio buttons, etc. should keep state between searches