On Aug 11, 2006, at 2:49 PM, Darshana Chhajed wrote:
Hi,
I'm worried that using the text search field as a text entry box
will be confusing.
I think, the text entry widget is not just a search bar. It is a
"command line" which can be used to perform several tasks one of
which is searching. It was being called a search bar till now
since it had no other functionality to it. So I dont think a new UI
feature would be required then.
FWIW (data point of one single user, use accordingly), I "replaced"
the search entry field in FireFox with a YubNub Web command line.
(Technically this was just making the yubnub site the default "search
engine".)
How this works for me is if I'm doing a search I type "g amelia
raitte" or some such thing and it does a google search -- g is the
command for a basic google search. If I forget the 'g' and just type
in my query, unless the first term in my search is identical with a
yubnub command, yubnub does the smart thing and does a google search
anyway. If I want something more specific than a google search -- to
jump to an RFC number, find an Internet-Draft by author, search
Technorati or jump to a thesaurus entry, I type something like
rfc 3744
ids desruisseaux
tec sunbird
thes piquant
Of course the commands could start with a slash or something, I could
learn something simple like that trivially, but I just wanted to
explain how well it works for me to have one text entry widget in my
browser rather than two.
Lisa
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