Empowering Search through Genres
When you use a search engine, say, Google, you get a list of ordered results. So, here's what a search for "information architecture" returns.
Which is all well and good, if you want that particular tutorial, or Jesse's particular set of resources. But, considering the 684,000 results, one gets the feeling that there could be more going on here.
Clusty, the hideously named search engine, uses algorithmic juju to identify related topics, and presents those with your results.
All right. I can't argue that this is any better than Google's results, because it's unclear just how these topics are related. If you search on "information architecture" and then click "usability" or "web design," just what are you going to get?
For my talk, I mocked up a Clusty interface that utilized genre as a filter: (Via peterme.com)
Which is all well and good, if you want that particular tutorial, or Jesse's particular set of resources. But, considering the 684,000 results, one gets the feeling that there could be more going on here.
Clusty, the hideously named search engine, uses algorithmic juju to identify related topics, and presents those with your results.
All right. I can't argue that this is any better than Google's results, because it's unclear just how these topics are related. If you search on "information architecture" and then click "usability" or "web design," just what are you going to get?
For my talk, I mocked up a Clusty interface that utilized genre as a filter: (Via peterme.com)
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