Search result is the result of a search activity. The search result can be displayed in different ways and with different design.
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Is 10 search results per page the best?
When there are a lot of search results they often are paginated. Most search engines I know show 10 results per page. I guess this was born out of an easy technical solution or habit. But I don't know ...
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Hotel Finder by name - should it take you directly to a hotel page if it matches the search, or to the search results page?
Here's the dilemma. To help users quickly find a hotel (the same could be true for a shop finder, pub finder etc) there is a search field on the homepage where they can type the search query. This ...
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Whats the best default for search result sorting?
I'm working on a news search, and I find that sorting by the number of keyword matches tends to produce stale results, but sorting by date tends to produce irrelevant results.
How do I strike a ...
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How many items should a list optimally display? [duplicate]
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Is 10 search results per page the best?
We have a webshop where the products are listed in rows of 3, each being 340 pixels high. One of our categories now has 38 ...
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Is there a name for the pattern of a categorized autocomplete?
Lately, I've noticed that Facebook search presents it's autocomplete options as a nice categorized list:
However, I'm uncertain what to call this pattern. It reminds me a bit of what Peter Morville ...
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How to display search results for different versions of an item?
The Apache Bloodhound defect tracker I'm working on may show historic results in search in a future version. That means even after an item has been altered (like the description text of a Ticket), ...
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Whats the design rationale behind putting the pagination of the bottom end of the search results?
If you look at the search results provided by Google and Bing,they have their pagination right at the bottom (after all the search results in a page are displayed)
I was just wondering about the ...
