The blooming of information architecture at Google: A close look at facets, tags & categories in Google Base
A good review of the new Google Base UI ...
"I just spent some time with GoogleBase and was amazed at just how deeply Google has embraced standard information architecture concepts and trends. We have categories, facets, tags. I kid you not. Google of the simple search box with a go button has come a long way indeed.
A rich browse experience: Search and browse is integrated. I like this. I searched for "prius". It gave me a flat list of results, and options to refine by several facets (or attributes as it refers to them) "price" "condition", "make", "vehicles", "color" etc. You can go back and forth between search and browsing. It also shows query previews (how many results are available for each attribute). In this case, these are not very useful. Since its different views of the same set of results, it shows "114" for all the facets. This defeats the purpose of query previews - whose goal is to help you decide what path to take depending on the number of results. (A better use would be to show previews for choosing paths within the facet)." continued ... (Via Rashmi Sinha)
"I just spent some time with GoogleBase and was amazed at just how deeply Google has embraced standard information architecture concepts and trends. We have categories, facets, tags. I kid you not. Google of the simple search box with a go button has come a long way indeed.
A rich browse experience: Search and browse is integrated. I like this. I searched for "prius". It gave me a flat list of results, and options to refine by several facets (or attributes as it refers to them) "price" "condition", "make", "vehicles", "color" etc. You can go back and forth between search and browsing. It also shows query previews (how many results are available for each attribute). In this case, these are not very useful. Since its different views of the same set of results, it shows "114" for all the facets. This defeats the purpose of query previews - whose goal is to help you decide what path to take depending on the number of results. (A better use would be to show previews for choosing paths within the facet)." continued ... (Via Rashmi Sinha)
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