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Turbocharging Solr Index Replication with BitTorrent Many of you probably use BitTorrent to download your favorite ebooks, MP3s, and movies. At Etsy, we use BitTorrent in our production systems for search replication.
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Bloug: IA Heuristics for Search Systems

Sep 02, 2004: IA Heuristics for Search Systems Another day, another project, another set of IA heuristics.

Designing The Holy Search Box: Examples And Best Practices - Smashing Magazine

By Smashing Magazine Editorial and György Fekete On content-heavy websites, the search box is often the most frequently used design element. http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/12/04/designing-the-holy-search-box-examples-and-best-practices/

A List Apart: Articles: Internal Site Search Analysis: Simple, Effective, Life Altering!

http://www.alistapart.com/articles/internal-site-search-analysis-simple-effective-life-altering/ Understanding of your site visitors’ intent is one of the most delightful parts of web data analysis. In this article, we’ll learn five ways to analyze your internal site-search data—data that’s easy to get, to understand, and to act on. But let’s take a step back.
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http://www.unc.edu/~fazel/belkin.html

Belkin

Nicholas J. Belkin is currently a Professor of Information Science, and Director of the Ph.D.
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Search Patterns: Design for Discovery

http://searchpatterns.org/ Search is among the most disruptive innovations of our time.
http://www.uxmatters.com/mt/archives/2006/01/evaluating-the-usability-of-search-forms-using-eyetracking-a-practical-approach.php

Evaluating the Usability of Search Forms Using Eyetracking: A Practical Approach :: UXmatters

In this article, I’ll present findings from eyetracking tests we did to evaluate the best solutions for label placement in Web forms. Today, forms are the primary—often the only—way users have of sending data to Web sites. Web 2.0 makes extensive use of forms.
http://philosophe.com/search_topics/search_tests/

Testing Search – philosophe

How do you go about testing your site’s search functionality?
http://philosophe.com/search_topics/structure/

A Structural Look at Search – philosophe

As you examine the many possible characteristics of searches, it should become clear that many of these characteristics describe different aspects of search.

8 Quick Ways to Fix Your Search Engine - Adaptive Path

Over the past year, I’ve evaluated the search experiences on a number of popular content sites. With the help of author and interface designer Darcy DiNucci , I picked apart the search and result designs from sites like Apple.com , NASA.gov , SchwabFoundation.org , and a variety of others. We focused on content sites, rather than e-commerce or Web applications, and we avoided general Web search engines entirely.

Exploring The Shift In Search Behaviors With Microsoft’s Jacquelyn Krones

Jacquelyn Krones (Photo: Annie Laurie Malarkey)
“ “Observe how your users approach information, consider what it means, and design to allow them to achieve what they need.” ” I discovered the concepts in this article while preparing material for an introductory information architecture workshop.

Four Modes of Seeking Information and How to Design for Them - Boxes and Arrows: The design behind the design

searchtools: site search, relevance heuristics, open information extraction, rebel search, and more links

[Heuristics for Relevance] Solr Powered ISFDB – Part #11: Using DisMax
This is part 11 in a (never ending?) series of articles on Indexing and Searching the ISFDB.org data using Solr . When we left off last time, we had used a domain specific biasing function to improve the order of our results so popular Authors and Titles surfaced at the top of results.

Lucid Imagination » Solr Powered ISFDB – Part #11: Using DisMax