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Posted By: UtahSEOpro 186 days ago
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Category: Searching
Advanced search is the ugly child of interface design -always included, but never loved. Websites have come to depend on their search engines as the volume of content has increased. Yet advanced search functionality has not significantly developed in years. Poor matches and overwhelming search results remain a problem for users. Perhaps the standard search pattern deserves a new look. A progressive disclosure approach can enable users to use precision advanced search techniques to refine their searches and pinpoint the desired results.
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from Gab 184 days ago #
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Excellent point. Advanced search is a crucial element of search yet it's hardly used (probably the result of specialized operators like site: inurl: etc getting popularized). Google even lets you download a posted about it!

On a related note, I was just writing on my site about site search tracking with Google analytics, and it's funny what users are both looking for and what they're getting as a result. More interestingly, those site searches are being indexed and ranked on longtail searches (all in the post: http://seoroi.com/case-studies/post-88-scratchpad/)!


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