Search Interfaces, Google & Sherlock
Some discussion at scrapple on Google’s growing number of search boxes, and contrast that to Apple’s Sherlock which I think most Apple users are familiar with and enjoy at least as much as Google (all hearsay on my part I suppose).
Sherlock can present multiple search interfaces, and those interfaces can search drastically different things: airline tickets, restaurants, medline search (?), present different types of result sets and different window elements to sort and get at the data they want.
Does the Sherlock approach juxtapose the Google approach, or do I not understand completely what Google's approach is? And in fact are Google's and Sherlock's approach similar: clean, simple, easy to use, similar interfaces.
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Sherlock is an interesting comparison. I haven't used it before but just did a quick search of Kpelle* in Sherlock and Google. Got very different hit lists.
--Sherlock list is small & finite and based on searches of other question answering services (Ask Jeeves, About.com, Lycos, etc.) kind of a metasearch.
--Google list is, if not infinite, well really really big.
Thanks for the pointer. I'll be looking into it further on Scrapple.
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*(Kpelle are an ethnic group in Liberia--useful term for getting a smaller set of hits out of a gigantic data set)
Ah a comment on scrapple.
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