[IxDA Discuss] searching within browse

[Dmitry Nekrasovski]

On a side note, what Bobby is describing is usually referred to as
faceted browsing and/or faceted search.

Dmitry

On 11/1/06, bobby nath : * <bobbynath at hotmail.com> wrote:
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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)
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> - 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.
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> 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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