[IxDA Discuss] searching within browse

[bobby nath : *]

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Hmm... not quite what I was thinking.
Here's an example that comes to mind:
Check out http://shopping.comcast.net/search_attrib.php/page_id=87 (which 
should be home > electronics > audio components > cd changers)

- Click "Denon" in the left hand column.  Notice a dashboard labeled 
"Selected Filters" is instantiated in the left column, and an option to 
remove the refinement variable of "Denon" is provided.
- Now, search for the term "5 disc" using the default dropdown option of 
"search current results".  Observe that the context has persisted; the only 
difference is that the search term has been applied as an additional filter 
over the previous set of results.  It, like "Denon", can now be 
browsed/searched within, and removed as a constraint... if so desired.
- Select "Carousel" under "Disc Mechanism" in the left column.  Your results 
should reduce to 1 (as the parenthetical binning implied).
- Now, delete the search term from the "Selected Filters" block, and you 
will expand your results by three.

This is (part of) the power of multi-dimensional navigation and offering 
search/browse as synergistic mechanisms for result refinement, rather than 
isolating them as two disparate systems.

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>From: "Nathan Vincent" <Nathan_Vincent at infosys.com>
>To: <discuss at ixda.org>
>Subject: Re: [IxDA Discuss] searching within browse
>Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2006 11:14:38 +1100
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>Bobby said (amongst other things):
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>My advice, given a limited understanding your specific application, is
>to allow for the constraint of any search query to the active set of
>results, and to retain the user's context otherwise (in as much as that
>is possible).
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>So in other words, follow the approach of DMOZ.org which allows
>search-within-bowse and does its best to retain the user's context when
>doing so?
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>- Nathan
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