http://www.searchuserinterfaces.com/blog A blog about Search User Interfaces Sun, 06 Dec 2009 15:35:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Avi Rappoport alerted me to the fact that Chris Sherman of Search Engine Land named Search User Interfaces one of the best SEO books of 2009. I was pleased with how Chris explained this choice, given that my book does not talk about SEO directly. He says: "With ... http://www.searchuserinterfaces.com/blog/2009/12/search-user-interfaces-named-a-best-book-of-2009/ I've heard from colleagues that they are receiving their copies of the physical book in the mail from Amazon. If you've been waiting to order a copy until it is in stock, procrastinate no longer! And of course I encourage people to write a review on Amazon and ... http://www.searchuserinterfaces.com/blog/2009/10/search-user-interfaces-is-shipping/ At SIGIR 2009, an excellent paper was presented by Diane Kelly, Karl Gyllstrom, and Earl W. Bailey that compares user-generated versus algorithmically-generated query suggestions. As far as I know, this is the first paper to do such a comparison within a usability study. With a healthy-sized pool of ... http://www.searchuserinterfaces.com/blog/2009/07/user-generated-query-suggestions-found-to-be-better-than-machine-generated/ I finished writing the book and sent the files to my publisher towards the end of January 2009. Towards the end of April they sent me a round of copy-editing comments which I then either retained or rejected. On June 24th the publisher gave me the final ... http://www.searchuserinterfaces.com/blog/2009/07/putting-a-bit-of-bing-in-the-book/ Interestingly, no one so far has asked me why I am putting my book online for free. Rather, they've been asking how I got my publisher to agree to it. Assumptions have really changed! The short answer to how is that I chose Cambridge University Press ... http://www.searchuserinterfaces.com/blog/2009/07/how-did-you-convince-your-publisher-to-let-you-put-your-book-online-for-free/ When I realized that I was writing a book and not just a few chapters for a more general book, I instantly knew that the title had to be Search User Interfaces. It is a phrase that I use a lot in my work, and I was trying to ... http://www.searchuserinterfaces.com/blog/2009/07/mama-dont-let-your-babies-name-their-books-with-garden-path-noun-compounds/ Several people have asked how I produced the html pages for the book website. What a perfect topic for a blog post! (NB: Much of this material appears in a response I made to a comment from Will Fitzgerald.) The answer is that I spent a lot of time on ... http://www.searchuserinterfaces.com/blog/2009/07/converting-the-book-to-an-html-web-site/ This blog is a companion for my new book, which I am making available online today. My intended audience is  practitioners and researchers who spend a lot of time thinking about user interfaces for search engines, or who want to bone up on the field. In this book I try to stick ... http://www.searchuserinterfaces.com/blog/2009/06/launching-search-user-interfaces/ Comments on and discussion of Chapter 12 should be placed here. http://www.searchuserinterfaces.com/blog/2009/06/comments-on-chapter-12/ Comments on and discussion of Chapter 11 should be placed here. http://www.searchuserinterfaces.com/blog/2009/06/comments-on-chapter-11/