02nd Jan 2010
Search first, ask questions later
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Search is very important for most sites, as a first step, each user is to know where to start. I do a full text search usually does a good job, when people know what they want, but it is much less effective if it is not. Help these people, it is best to start from the premise that users are men.
Computers love accuracy. If you know the name of the product you need, almost all Web sites to find some. However, mostpeople need a little more freedom, and they often have only a general idea of what they want. What to do if your site can not provide enough information to be perfect? The same people do: ask.
Do I need to buy a lamp. It is hanging from the ceiling to be silver with a modern style to match the rest of my living room and cost less than $ 200 If I had gone to the store, talking with the seller may seekthe following:
"I need a modern light."
"Want to hanging, chandelier or lamp stands?"
"Appendix".
"Bronze, Silver, wood or brass?
"Silver".
"What are you willing to spend?"
"Two hundred dollars.
"Well, are the five lights that could work."
Your site can do the same. Users enter a general search and displays the list of results. Near or above the results, your site can provide a set of categories (eg, color) ofoptions (such as bronze, silver, wood, brass), which allows users to narrow your search by selecting the features important to them. Probably use something like that. Web search people call this face, because users narrow the selection of certain elements or aspects.
Advanced Search is not fully comprehensive search
But why wait until after the search results returned? Specify the categories and the option to combine the search box so that users can chooseattributes that they want before they search, is also a common tactic at all, it's called an advanced search. These features certainly a modern look, their interfaces ježily selection and drop-down menus, but the three major problems.
Zaplašit seek to control the appetite of most users. All these extra buttons and apparatus say it is difficult and most people would rather their chances nevyzdobené full text search, which is familiar and easy to use. Cutlooking possibilities, usually show a simple link, so users do not have to deal with the complex interface. Moreover, according to the search results for a click, which provides immediate feedback, which encourages risk and experimentation is easily reversible.
When the user selects the search options to evaluate the results. For example, my light, you must specify the color, style, type and price, and for me, not enough options? If you do not choose a color,I get too much? Refinery after searching allows users to see how many products, each of which represents an option, and always have full control over the process of filtering.
If you guess wrong, the people with our advanced search returned no results. The user must then return to the guess again, and still does not guarantee that a second attempt will work. Users can try a third time, but the competitor is just a click. You have to faceHowever, on the basis of the results returned, so it is possible to select an empty filter.
What is needed?
To search for the face, you must sort the data (articles or documents) with the relevant attributes. There is a whole art of this kind of classification is called taxonomy, but this process need not be intimidating or complicated. Content can be sorted according to the characteristics already included in the database, often called the structure elements (forLights can be a designer, this year, price, etc.) and less certain properties, which may be assigned, known as structural positions (for light, may be the style, reviews, popularity, etc.). The best prospects for the combination of both types.
Then you have a well-designed interface. In general look of the categories presented alongside or above search results, but there are problems to solve. Users will have instantunderstand what the categories and options, and how to manipulate them. And the results category and compete for space on the same page, intelligent design will be necessary to avoid overwhelming the user.
Finally, you will need to provide quality programming in order to obtain results quickly, and ensure that the system is scalable to meet future content.
So I fully comprehensive Search?
Not all parties need to face finding and creating a good man to takea certain amount of work. But if your site is the number of results returned fugitive general or false questions, you may want to consider the presence of a system that is optimized for people instead of computers. Of course, assuming that users are men.
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