Search Results Page Usability
Posted on October 1st, 2005 in Usability | 5 Comments »
Daniel Szuc asks:
“If we assume that users only click into the first 1-10 pages of search results. What’s the point of showing any more?
“Why do search engines display any more than the maximum amount of results users are willing to look at in the first place?”
Here’s what I think. Almost everyone knows that users rarely move past the first search results page. It probably makes sense to show, say, 25-30 results on one page and one page only. Then provide users with all sorts of tools to help them refine or re-try their search. I’ve said it before: Search is still crude and stupid.
What do you think?
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Search is a legacy application.
Our intranet search only ever returns one page of results with the most relevant at the top. Our long term goal is to help cure people of their search addiction by providing access to links from navigational artefacts that provide a contextual framework for user discovery.
We have over 15,000 users and have managed to reduce “navigation by search” from over 90 per cent to under 70 per cent. We expect to improve on this figure over the next six months.
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