On Oct 23, 2004, at 2:59 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 08:32:45AM -0400, Peter A. Daly wrote:My first impression when I really started trying to use the default install of nutch as a user was I could not mentally scan through the results and identify the most relevant when compared to Google for example. So I went over to Google and did a side by side comparison to see what might be the cause. Here's what I found, and my analysis.Suggestions for the SERPs:
1. Restrict the page/hit descriptions so they are limited in width to 400 or 500px. It makes the results much easier to scan quickly.
The html texts are free flows in browser window. It is up to users to resize their windows. Or am I missing something here? Another point is that, when "clustering" is turned on, the page should look good too.
Google looks like they put line breaks in-between their summary segments, essentially making them not as wide on the page. Having a more confined region of the page that holds the summary reduces the eye movements needed to scan the section and increases the speed at which you can compare summaries. Eye movement wise, it is easier to scan a 3 lines at 400px wide than 1 line going all the way across the page with minimal wrapping. I believe the theory is you want to have the relevant parts of the summary as close together pixel wise a possible, and made easier to digest by adding the bold emphesis to quickly attract the eye to the important parts.
By implementing a 400px wide div for the summary made my results much easier for me to quickly scan and digest.
Thoughts?
-Pete
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