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Chapter 8. Search Systems

What we’ll cover:
Determining whether your site needs a search system
The basic anatomy of a search system
What to make searchable
A basic understanding of retrieval algorithms
How to present retrieval results
Search interface design
Where to learn more

Chapter 7 helped you create the best navigation system possible for your web site. This chapter describes another form of finding information: searching. Searching (and more broadly, information retrieval) is an expansive, challenging, and well-established field, and we can only scratch the surface here. We’ll limit our discussion to what makes up a search system, when to implement search systems, and some practical advice on how to design a search interface and display search results.


  

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