Search Pages and Results
What is searching? Searching is where a user types a query into a computer and an algorithm looks at a set of data to find relevant results.
• Because formal classification has its limits. Why do people search? • Because the environment they are operating in has too much information to be comfortably browsed. • Because formal classification has its limits.
• Multi-box • Single-box Two Ways of Searching • Multi-box • Single-box
Search as Command Line
Problems with Searching
Practical Implementation • Search Boxes • Search Engine Optimization
Searching is Chaotic
Market Shares • Google: 53.6% • Yahoo!: 19.9% • Windows Live: 12.9% • AOL: 5.6% • Ask.com: 1.7% • Other: 6.3% —August 2007, SearchEngineWatch.com