search engines
July 30, 2008 at 4:43 pm | In interaction design, interface design | 2 CommentsTags: interaction design, interface design, search engine
One the step of google, i think there are lots of search engine application design is happening. Recently i heard that google engineers have started their own search engine and they claim that its much faster and accurate than google. Though i do not have screen shots of that, but i have just come across to some interesting search engines.
1. searchcloud
Interesting thing here i found out was, emphasize on the keyword. User can weight their keyword by given options in the website.
As shown in the image, i can give importance to some of the keyword which i like and search it accordingly. I would say an interesting way of looking search engines.
2. cuil
In addition to searchcloud another application i found was Cuil.
Under search column, there is small tag written say 121,617,892,992 web pages. Personally i liked the way they represented the data. Something like gmail says ” you email space is 6.873932930 GB and continuously updating”.
When searching for “interaction design”, in addition to topics related to interaction design, it also suggests some keywords, authors, people related to that domain. So in our case it shows human computer interaction, usability, design, information architects and many more. I have not used it much, but one of my friend who used it says that interface is good, but search results are not satisfactory.
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Cuil uses the concept of Faceted search. So the additional suggestions that it provides (under the accordion style widget, are the related factes based on the semantic relevance.
Though I am not very sure of the presentation and how usable they are. But ‘faceted search’ is gaining ground in a major way.
Instead of forcing one way to view the items, Faceted Search/Navigation allow users to view the items in any way they want. At the same time they learn how the items are structured in taxonomy/folksonomy so that they may consider other search strategies in the future.
One example of basic ‘faceted search’ is here:
Comment by Kaushik Ghosh — July 31, 2008 #
HI Kaushik,
That was nice. I didnt know about the faceted search. Though it is nice concept and i am sure every search engine would move towards it.
Comment by keyurbsorathia — August 18, 2008 #