[Search-l] twin principles, or what brings us together?

[Angela]

I'm forwarding the mail below for Jeremy Krinn. Please remember to
trim the digests off the end of your posts to prevent them being held
for moderation. Thanks.

Angela

> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: "Jeremy Krinn" <jkrinn at mboffice.com>
> To: <search-l at wikia.com>
> Date: Tue, 8 May 2007 15:25:14 -0500
> Subject: Re: [Search-l] twin principles, or what brings us together?

If you want to ensure transparency in the searches, build easy to use
user defined filters.  So when a generic search retrieves results with
lots of noise from a completely unrelated topic, with a few clicks,
the entire search can be modified or narrowed.   Finding ways to
empower a user to choose or tune a search relevancy would be one way
to avoid a conflict in interest.  For example, two terms used in
separate industries.   A search may return result sets from both
areas.  It should be easier to reduce the "noise" from a search to
narrow the search (I always end up wishing for a filter or  a "less of
this" button).