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What is your experience with Faceted Search?

“Faceted search” is the rubrick for a site that allows users to refine search results by categories (aka “facets”). This kind of interface appears on a lot of sites Kayak and Kudzu are two examples that come to mind.

Posted: 21-10-2008

mattotude

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yoms

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Member Since: 09-10-2008

Do you mean in the same way that ebay does? Kind of similar to a directory I suppose.

I'm not altogether convinced by them. Ideally all someone needs to do is type, for example, 'mens t-shirts' into the site's search engine and the content and algorithm will be able to cope properly with this and return relevant results. This cuts out all the different unnecessary stages of clicking 'clothes > tops > t-shirts > mens'.

Posted: 21-10-2008


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