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Taking the 'Ooh' out of Google: Getting site search right - Part 12
Yesterday I began to wrap up my series of posts about getting site search right with the start of a step-by-step guide to transforming the style of Google results that users are familiar with, into something with a richer user experience. Add structured data Google understands a lot about the structure of the web. It understands how all the pages that it has crawled on your site are linked together, and uses this to understand what the key pages...

Read the full post - Published November 21, 2008 in IA Summit, Search - No comments yet

Taking the 'Ooh' out of Google: Getting site search right - Part 11
Transforming your results During the course of this series of articles, I've looked at various elements of interface design which have been employed, for better or for worse, across a wide range of European newspaper websites. Today I'm going to wrap up the series by laying out a step-by-step transformation of Google's search results listing into something that presents users who opt for 'site search' with a richer UI experience. Google's layout In part 2 of this series, I...

Read the full post - Published November 20, 2008 in IA Summit, Search - 1 comment so far

Taking the 'Ooh' out of Google: Getting site search right - Part 10
Over the last couple of weeks I've been publishing a series of posts about getting site search right, based on my presentation at the 2008 Amsterdam Euro IA Summit. Today I wanted to look at some examples of poor search user experience design which you should seek to avoid. Don't use confusing gimmicks Lots of search technologies come with plenty of features in them for displaying relevancy to the user - almost all of them useless. Giving results a...

Read the full post - Published November 18, 2008 in IA Summit, Search - No comments yet

Taking the 'Ooh' out of Google: Getting site search right - Part 9
I've been writing a series of posts about getting site search right based on my presentation at the Euro IA Summit in Amsterdam this year In the last part I started looking at some examples where search user experience goes wrong. In order to entice the masses away from Google, a site search needs to be on the top of its game, and avoid things like intrusive adverts, opening unnecessary new windows, and providing an inconsistent experience. Another sure...

Read the full post - Published November 13, 2008 in Google, IA Summit, Newspapers, Search - No comments yet

Taking the 'Ooh' out of Google: Getting site search right - Part 8
A couple of weeks back I began a series of articles on currybetdotnet based upon my recent talk at the Euro IA Summit. As well as looking at ways that site search can be made distinctive from Google by including thumbnails and information Google can't obtain, 'advanced' search, and following some positive European examples, I've been looking at areas of the user experience where designers need to show caution. Today I want to start looking at some examples of...

Read the full post - Published November 12, 2008 in Google, IA Summit, Newspapers, Search - No comments yet

Taking the 'Ooh' out of Google: Getting site search right - Part 7
Over the last couple of weeks I've been publishing a series of posts based on an expanded version of the presentation I gave at the 2008 Euro IA Summit in Amsterdam at the end of September. There, I was talking about "Taking the 'Ooh' out of Google", and getting site search right for news. I've looked at ways that site search can be made distinctive from Google by including thumbnail images, information Google can't obtain, providing usable 'advanced' search,...

Read the full post - Published November 11, 2008 in Google, IA Summit, Newspapers, Search - No comments yet

Taking the 'Ooh' out of Google: Getting site search right - Part 6
Last week I started a series of articles on currybetdotnet based upon my recent talk at the Euro IA Summit. I've been looking at ways that site search can be made distinctive from Google by including thumbnail images and information Google can't obtain, providing usable 'advanced' search, and following some positive examples from newspaper sites across the continent. Today I want to look at two areas where designs need to exercise caution - 'scoped' search and the use of...

Read the full post - Published November 7, 2008 in IA Summit, Search - 1 comment so far

Taking the 'Ooh' out of Google: Getting site search right - Part 5
Since last week I've been posting a series of articles based upon an expanded version of my Amsterdam Euro IA Summit talk. Having looked at ideas like handling advanced search and adding thumbnail images to search results pages, today I want to concentrate on some positive examples of search user interface design from amongst Europe's newspaper website. Hide complicated features Sometimes it is better to hide complicated features. Sweden's Svenska Dagbladet has several options on their homepage search, some...

Read the full post - Published November 6, 2008 in IA Summit, Search - No comments yet

Taking the 'Ooh' out of Google: Getting site search right - Part 4
I've been presenting a series of articles based on my talk at the 2008 Euro IA Summit in Amsterdam about 'getting site search right for news'. Last week I looked at utilising information that Google can't obtain to make your UI distinctive, and adding thumbnail images into the search results page to improve relevancy recognition for users. Today I want to look at a perpetually tricky area - advanced search. In recent years, even offering advanced search has sometimes...

Read the full post - Published November 5, 2008 in IA Summit, Search - No comments yet

Taking the 'Ooh' out of Google: Getting site search right - Part 3
This week I've been presenting a series of posts based upon my Euro IA Summit presentation - "Taking the 'Ooh!' out of Google - Getting site search right for news". In an era where search usage is dominated by Google, it is important to make sure that site search doesn't just return great results, but that it does it in a way which offers a distinctive experience from Google. Yesterday I was looking at some of the information that...

Read the full post - Published October 31, 2008 in IA Summit, Search - No comments yet

Taking the 'Ooh' out of Google: Getting site search right - Part 2

Published October 30, 2008 in IA Summit, Search - No comments yet