Slide 1Slide 2Slide 3Slide 4Slide 5Slide 6Slide 7Slide 8Slide 9Slide 10Slide 11Slide 12Slide 13Slide 14Slide 15Slide 16Slide 17Slide 18Slide 19Slide 20Slide 21Search Pages and ResultsINF 385E Information Architecture and DesignⅠMin YaoOctober 11, 2005Overview•Why do we love search•Locating Search•Scoping Search•Query Entry•Retrieval Results•Query Refinement•Finishing SearchWhy do we love search?•Search lets users control their own destiny•Search is also users' escape hatch when they are stuck in navigationLocating Search•“the little box where I can type”•Top left, middle or right•Put the search tool in a consistent placeScoping SearchQuery Entry•Where to enter a query?(Multiple search boxes can be confusing.)•Is it easy to enter a query? (Boolean operator?)Query Entry (cont)•Is the search box long enough to handle common query lengths? The mean query length is slowly increasing, approaching three terms Search log analysis•query builders?(spell-checking, stemming, natural language processing)Retrieval Results•Elements of Results PageRetrieval Results (cont)•Which content components to display? Depend on users’ needs, which components are availableRetrieval Results (cont)•How to organize retrieval results? Sorting: alphabet, chronology Ranking: relevance, popularity, users’/experts’ ratings, pay-for-placement Vaughan (2004) compared human rankings with those of Google, AltaVista and Teoma. ClusteringRetrieval Results (cont)•Zero results?Query Refinement•Advanced search, refine search or revise search•Display the original search, make it easy to edit•Narrow search results, search within results•Expand search resultsFinishing Search•Save a group of results•Print or email a result•Save a search query
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