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Searchers Punt Early [netflix movie searching]
Walter Underwood of Netflix posts about the minimal text that people use to search for movie titles. Examples include frank g[ehry], baron mu[nchausen], and apoc[alypto]. Adding auto-complete to the search field improved usability considerably.
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Typeahead Search With CouchDB | Couchbase Blog
Algorithm and code for implementing autocomplete with CouchDB, based on frequency of words in the index.
tags: autocomplete APIs JavaScript
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Organizing query completions for web search
Creating autocomplete suggestions based on query logs, click-through patterns and reformulation, and clustering them with an appropriate label. The result is compared to web search logs, but not tested with users or click-through analysis.
(PDF available from author's page)tags: autocomplete clustering click-tracking search log analysis
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A scary number of software patent applications on autocomplete.
tags: autocomplete
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Advancing search query autocompletion services with more and better suggestions
An academic approach to efficiency in generating autocompletion suggestions, and evaluating the results using only query logs as input. I think that more traditional relevance testing with user assessments and click-tracking is much more likely to be meaningful.
(PDF is available at the authors' publications pages)
links on autocomplete for search
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searchtools in abeyance
Due to professional commitments and health issues, I'm not updating this blog.
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Who owns Search in the Enterprise?
Sometimes it's IT, Communications, HR, everyone, or no one. None of these by themselves are sustainable for supporting information access in the long…
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Fall Enterprise Search Summit is coming soon
The Enterprise Search Summit will be in Washington, CD, from November 1 to 3, and it's looking good! We're concentrating on strategies for making…
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