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Mindless Recall Kills Faceted Search

Mindless Recall Kills Faceted Search

By Vegard Sandvold on August 24, 2009 | 19 Responses

Facets add value to the search user experience by helping users refine the usual ranked, best-first list of documents on a search page. The quality of faceted search, however, is at risk when search result precision is traded for recall. Users should ideally be able to find all documents relevant for a given query... Read More »