Hi Matt, The biggest pattern is location awareness.
Cheers, -- Jarod On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 10:22 PM, Matt Parker <[email protected]>wrote: > I'm looking for objective data on user search behavior, particular > with respect to city and town names. > > When presented with a set of potential search fields that would > include typical location fields (street, city, state, zip), do users > experience more success when the CITY field is completely wild (i.e., > searches the data intra-field, ignoring spaces or other punctuation), > or when the field is restricted and anchored (i.e., the search term is > assumed to be from the beginning of the field's data). > > Any leads or points in the right direction would be appreciated. > > Thanks, > Matt > ________________________________________________________________ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ....... [email protected] > Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help > -- http://designforuse.blogspot.com/ ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [email protected] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
