A Primer on Faceted Navigation and Guided Navigation
“What is faceted navigation? It’s a way to browse information, or to refine long lists of search results, along multiple dimensions, aka facets. These are orthogonal lenses through which to view the world. For example, I might search for an expert by facets like name, project, company, or date—and more likely, by some combination of those facets, selected in any sequence.”
How are facets different than categories? Or, ad hoc keyword queries with structured results? What am I missing here?