October 18, 2009
Or, What Wolfram Alpha Does Completely Wrong
In my last post, Three Types of Searches, I proposed that there are three distinct behaviors of search, and that each behavior has its own optimal results formatting. Understanding these different search behaviors and thinking specifically about existing search tools and implementations of search suggestions has led me to [...]
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October 4, 2009
I seem to have had the same discussion over and over lately here at Yahoo about site search. Yahoo has (or had, anyway) a high-profile web search technology and design team. So when we discuss these site-specific searches, talk always seems to circle back to the question, “How much should this site’s search resemble—or maybe [...]
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