Site Search That Doesn't Stink
Speaker Info
What is Site Search?
What Sites Need Search?
Why Do People Search?
How a Search Engine Works
Search Engine Diagram
Database vs. Text Search
Indexing Process
What Gets Indexed
Other Indexing Issues
File System Indexers
Robot Spider Indexers
Database Indexers
Major Search Features
Search Synonyms (Thesaurus)
Possibly Useful Features
Search Form Interfaces
Simple Search Page
Advanced Search Forms
Advanced Search Page
Commerce Search Issues
Relevance Ranking
Results Pages
Results Items - Basic
Results Items - Description
Results Page - Info Site
Results Page - Commerce
Results Page Commerce with Extras
Results Page - Not Enough Info
Results Page - Too Much Info
Too Many Results
Clustered Results
Why Searches Fail
Zero Matches Page Bad Example
Zero MatchesPage Good Example
Usability Testing
Search Log Analysis
Effective Site Search
Email: nets0307 at searchtools dot com
Home Page: www.searchtools.com
Other information: This is a presentation given December 11, 2001 at the Internet World Conference in New York City
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