Comments on: Why is web search such a hard problem?

By: Why build a robot when you can empower people? « Why

Why build a robot when you can empower people? « Why — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 04:33:36 +0000

[...] If you look under the covers you quickly realize this is not the case. Web Search is comprised of 5 key dimensions, ranking, comprehensiveness, freshness, presentation and speed. Yahoo, Google, Microsoft and Ask [...]

By: menro

menro — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 15:26:44 +0000

I enjoyed the face search you mentioned above, but it does not solve the blended results problem. I find windowing the data to be an alternative method to scan for content, blending takes allot more precision, though it can be done the pagination rules are significantly more difficult in a dynamic environment.

The problem with google’s blended search is the design, if i know what i want i can ask the search engine for it, but if i enter Shakira. i might want her latest MP3, photo, video, a Verizon phone, fan pages, etc…

Blended search has to deal with all of these different datatypes.

By: franz

franz — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 09:11:06 +0000

hi, great article.

but well, about your grid: it’s a back to the window paradigm.

people using search engines want to find, not to search. with this grid they have to search again in their viewport what is maybe best for them. they are mostly not interrested into different medias (website, pics, video, …) all they really want is the perfect match to their (information) need. thats why google now has oneboxresults, because sometimes a pic or news is the best result to a “shakira” search query.

here is my contribution to the new search engine serps
http://www.facesaerch.com