You could display results for the exact match only and provide a link or some other control to "Find similarly spelled names". Then the initial search is always for what the user typed, and getting anything additional is explicitly spelled out for the user to control.
Doug Brown [email protected] On 12/2/09 10:46 AM, "Alan Wexelblat" <[email protected]> wrote: > The question I'm now trying to figure out is whether soundex should be > used all the time or whether it should only be invoked if there is no > exact match. For example, in our test data set the users "Alan Brown" > and "Allan Brown" both appear - if someone searches for "Alan Brown" > should he get one result or two? > > Both answers seem to confuse some subset of our test users, so I'm > wondering if there has been any general research on the topic that > might be relevant. ________________________________________________________________ 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
