If you run a webshop your goal is to sell a much of your products as possible. So you create a great looking website, add your products and focus on getting found in Google (and/or use adwords) to get visitors. You have optimised your website so conversion is high: your products are easy to find, we Read more...
A lot of website use forms of attribute search to help their users find the information faster. Examples are categories, price ranges, supplies, brands etc. Formerly, the most common way to let searchers use these attributes was with drop-down selectboxes. The last year you see the faceted search ty Read more...
A lot of blogposts start with a question to use one or another method to improve search quality. This post is like that: a lot of search engine (and alike) suppliers of corporate engines offer the feature of automated synonym usage to expand user search query’s. This seems very usefull since t Read more...
Updating our public label BoeZoe to crawl and index all childrens clothing in the Netherlands is quite a job. We are working on the second version of the website and the biggest adjustment is the possibility to choose more than one item per filter. For example sizes: most women (sorry guys, women m Read more...
Plain websearch on public engines like Google, Yahoo and such or on a website mainly consist of a single input type text box to type a search query. In some cases this is extended with a category filter and the use of advanced search. Is this user friendly and smart to do or should you incorporate s Read more...
The discussion on wether or not to automatically alter the users search query to one the search engine thinks is correct is subject of a new discussion now that Google seems to be doing this with their “Did you mean” function. What happens? If you type a query for which Google finds a Read more...
Is an internal search engine the same as web self-service or can/must they co-exist? I believe they, if both implemented correctly, must co-exist. I’ll try and explain why. First, what is my definition of internal search and web self-service. An internal search engine works like Google and sho Read more...
Just try a search in Google for something on a search engine (perhaps with the addition of optimising) and SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) is all you get as results…it is very hard to find anything about optimising your own search engine although it is one of the most important function of a Read more...
Even before Google, Altavista used the search channels ‘Web’, ‘Images’ and ‘News’ to let users devide search results. Google adapted this approach and I cannot understand why this remains. I believe about 80% of all searches is done on the Web-channel and the sear Read more...
As of today, we at Qweery will post articles about search related topics. Some will be commenting on news, other articles will be to engage in a discussion with you. Keep track! See you soon. Qweery Read more...