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faceted search interface

Subject: faceted search interface

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3 messages between Feb 3, 2010 and Feb 4, 2010.

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Alex Ksikes· Feb 3, 2010, 12:41 UTC · lore

Hi all,

I have just put together a system to automatically build a faceted search interface and search engine from any data. Would you mind having a look at it and letting me know what you think of it?

Here is a particular instance on IMDb (the internet movie database). You can refine by particular categories such as genres, actors or directors with the results ordered by user ratings and number of votes.

http://imdb.cloudmining.net/search?query=(@actor%20Brad%20Pitt)

This IMDb instance was built automatically. All that was needed was to setup the data in a specific format and to optionally customize the look and feel of a search result. In fact the system was also applied to DBLP:

http://dblp.cloudmining.net/search?query=(@venue%20CHI)

The system is called Cloud Mining (http://www.cloudmining.net). Your feedback would be very much appreciated.

Thank you so much,

Alex Ksikes

John Tapsell· Feb 3, 2010, 15:47 UTC · re: Alex Ksikes · lore

Re: faceted search interface

On 3 February 2010 12:41, Alex Ksikes <alex@chiefmall.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I have just put together a system to automatically build a faceted search interface and search engine from any data. Would you mind having a look at it and letting me know what you think of it?

I get vertical scrollbars for the search box. This can be reproduced by zooming in/out.

I think the "Powered by Cloud mining" box should be removed.

Remove "Select / remove query terms:" - it's obvious what to do with the big X button. Make the red "Brad Pitt [X]" thinner - reduce the whitespace.

Remove (Time to generate facets: 0.0 sec.).

Remove "Torrent search". People who want to get it illegally can search by themselves, and you do not want to be prompting illegal behaviour.

Make the search box less thick. You need to do this because the site is so visually heavy, but work on cleaning up the rest of the site instead.

I like the "Refine by GENRE" etc boxes, but it's extremely visually noisy. Different size fonts, no layout, different colors, etc. I'm not sure what to suggest - maybe making them expandable boxes that collapsed by default.

Work on reducing the information shown for each movie. The key is to reduce visual noise as much as possible. I like how you have a [+] box to hide some information. Can you do this more though?

Junio C Hamano· Feb 4, 2010, 01:31 UTC · re: Alex Ksikes · lore

Re: faceted search interface

Alex Ksikes <alex@chiefmall.com> writes:

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> I have just put together a system to automatically build a faceted
> search interface and search engine from any data. Would you mind having
> a look at it and letting me know what you think of it?
>
> Here is a particular instance on IMDb (the internet movie database)....

The query system might be interesting, but what does this have to do with this mailing list?