March 02, 2010
Book: Search Patterns
Search is the Web's fun and wicked problem, Mac Slocum, O'Reilly Radar (Feb 19)
Mac Slocum interviewed Peter Morville, author of the new book "Search Patterns" which looks at the next wave of search.
"He shows how "weird ideas" will shape search's future, and he also reveals the one recent innovation that unlocked a watershed moment for search (it's not what you'd expect)."
+ "web search works well for basic lookup" - a la Google - but not for much else
+ "Search is a complex, adaptive system and an iterative, interactive experience."
+ watch for emerging technologies as the base for changes in search
+ "search works best as a conversation"
+ "Social search" - not a threat to Google - but social search is changing the web search experience
+ users have to take some responsibility - information literacy is critical - "I'm convinced that information literacy is among the most important subjects we can teach our kids. They must learn where to search and how to evaluate what they find."
+ "Plus, search isn't only about findability. We created a searcher's edition of the user experience honeycomb to argue that search must also be useful, usable, desirable, accessible, credible, and valuable."
+ autocomplete - "new life in Web and mobile search."
Book's website - http://searchpatterns.org/ - Chapter 1 free plus pages about behaviour patterns, design patterns, and some illustrations.
Here's a preview:
