Search Engine Usability

Today I found a very informative blog post on the boxes and arrows user interface and web usability website that talks all about creating a better search experience for website visitors. During the Birds of a Feather session at DrupalCon Boston many of these key aspects of search were discussed and are on the agenda to be addressed at the Minnesota Search Sprint next weekend.

Some of the major concepts he brings up are things like sorting by tags and providing faceted searches to allow for further refining of results AFTER the initial search. The big key here is that more work must be done to provide a better search interface as opposed to developing the magic algorithm that reads peoples minds when they type in a 3 word query.

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How can Drupal's core search be improved to make your site more search friendly? We want to know!.

Don't have specific requests? You can still help! We need people to help us test the improvements that will be made during the Minnesota Search Sprint and afterwards. As a matter of fact, there are a number of great patches that just waiting for review so that they can be put into Drupal 7.x.