I Love Search Information Architecture
At the heart of every great enterprise search user experience lies a clear and concise information architecture. Why – because search without structure is nothing but a disheartening solitary struggle to make sense of chaos. In order to implement a successful and sustainable search information architecture, you need to identify and design around relevant information [...]
Wolfram Alpha – Re-Inventing the Command Line
The hype has passed, and it’s clear that Wolfram Alpha isn’t the new Google killer as initially anticipated. But what is this new computational knowledge engine, and how shall we use it? It seems to me that we have been given some sort of a command line tool for a comprehensive information database. The search [...]
Watch Out – Intelligent Information Retrieval is Coming to a Business Near You!
The Norwegian National Collection Agency (NCA) chose to use a search engine as a central component of their information infrastructure. Per Waage (CEO) is expecting to collect more money through monthly down payments, having more information about people’s financial assets at his hands. Moving from an old mainframe architecture to the FAST Enterprise Search Platform [...]
More About The User Experience Evolution
I would like to round up my last two posts on Google’s user experience innovations and experiements with search suggestions with a few comments on other quite recent search engine result page (SERP) innovation. Pagelinks Sitelinks are short-cuts to specific pages within a site, and they have been around for a while. In Google they [...]
Google’s New Search Suggestions May Kill Your Website
It has been reported that Google is experimenting with ads, links and answers presented in the Google Suggests list, directly as you type. Not everyone will take part in these experiments, so let me show you what it may look like. Normally, when you start typing into the search box at google.com (international site), you [...]
Google Is Innovating Search User Experience
The headline on digi.no this morning read “Search Does Not Get Better Anymore”. The background for the article was a report by Gartner, stating that technological development in search is falling behind, and that the need for federated search and conversation is not met by search technology providers today. A statement like that is meant [...]
Personalized Search
See this battered guitar, worn from years of playing rehearsals and concert gigs. I bet you it could tell us a story about the person who played it. It could tell us about rock-solid riffs, fiery solos and sweet melodies. It could, because this guitar has been personalized. The guitar has taken on some of [...]
