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Coverflow Makes No Sense for Search

By Vegard Sandvold on January 19, 2009 | 7 Responses

Coverflow, like any other popular design pattern, is widely used and abused. It’s bling for your iPod and MP3 collection. It’s makes file browsing all fun and games. But please, keep it away from my search results. Just because it looks good doesn’t mean it works good. I seriously doubt that search result coverflows... Read More »

Google Is Innovating Search User Experience

Google Is Innovating Search User Experience

By Vegard Sandvold on December 5, 2008 | 1 Response

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... Read More »