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WebWord Weblog Posting Posting Date: June 19, 2002 Faucet Facets: A few best practices for designing multifaceted navigation systems (Adaptive Path) -- "Architectures based on faceted information are an interesting hybrid of search and navigation. Users are given the impression of browsing through vast amounts of information, while the iterative process of specifying attributes is much like the interaction of many advanced search engines."
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Multifaceted is generally a good idea, but sometimes it makes it too easy for a user to winnow a search down to 0 results! I think good solution would have an entire category set (say, all dishwashers) pushed to the client, along with the matrix of how they rank...then every time a facet is selected, have a text box and button that says Search has |013| Results [Show me these results] an ideal solution would probably have to be graphical, with some wacky Venn diagram kind of things, but this wouldn't be too bad. Posted by: Kirk on June 20, 2002 10:21 AM
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