Search Context/Clustering | June 30th, 2005
Michael Mahemoff takes an interesting view on Ajax-isizing search results here Ajaxifying the Address Bar Interface.
I certainly agree to a certain extent – particularly that it makes sense in the intranet environment. As far as public search goes, i am becoming more partial to Vivisimo. It automatically builds a cluster tree of your search results (as well as just the straight goods) such that you can then browse the results by context. Searching “goog” as Michael talks about brings up Stock Quotes, Investing, Blog, Pictures etc – pretty cool I think. Now all it needs is to Ajaxify the cluster tree so that you can browse it in “real time”.
Mayby they will use our Ajax tree control when we release it.