Search User Interfaces by Marti Hearst, Cambridge University Press 2009.
Marti Hearst has been involved in the Flamingo Project and knows a lot about search behaviour and designing search interfaces. This book is available online for free.
"This book has two intended primary audiences. The first is academic researchers, graduate students, and those teaching graduate level courses in information retrieval, user interfaces, and other information management-related topics. The second intended audience is practitioners who design and build search interfaces."
There are also some webcast videos from the course on Search Engines: Technology, Society, and Business (2005)
Book was mentioned in A Roundup Of 2009’s Best SEO Books by Chris Sherman, Search Engine Land.
Check that article for short reviews of four titles on search engine optimization.
Posted by Gwen at December 2, 2009 02:28 AM