Comments on: Search User Interfaces is Shipping!

By: Marti

Marti — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 19:28:14 +0000

Allan, thank you for ordering a copy! I hope you find it useful.

By: Allan Grohe

Allan Grohe — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 04:47:39 +0000

My copy arrived about 2 weeks ago, but I haven’t made time to read it in earnest yet, Marti, but I will soon! (Perhaps while on my way out to SJC the beginning of next month).

Allan.

By: Marti

Marti — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:13:24 +0000

There is another example that has two search forms, rather than a search form and a drop-down menu, in Chapter 1, taken from zvents. In the text I focus on zvents' use of faceted navigation but I also wanted to illustrate its well-done use of scoped search as well. Here is the figure: zvents image showing two search forms supporting scoped search

By: Marti

Marti — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:05:24 +0000

In some cases it is useful to have multiple search forms for refining fields (so user can indicate, say, both location and restaurant type) as long as either one is optional. This is sometimes referred to as scoped search. I discuss this in Section 4.2 in the chapter on Query Specification.

By: NilsR

NilsR — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:14:07 +0000

awesome, just ordered it. Do you also answer this question that has been bugging me and i haven’t seen in the online version yet: “is it better to have 2 than 1 searbox for queries that state a WHAT and WHERE phrase?” local search likes…

thanks

By: marti

marti — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 12:24:19 +0000

Thanks, Greg. That’s what I get for using the WYSIWYG editor rather than typing in html directly. I’ve fixed it.

By: Greg Linden

Greg Linden — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 21:47:15 +0000

Hey, Marti, just a heads up that the “Order Here” link currently is broken. Thought you’d want to know.