Better presentation of search results
I just happened to notice that Clusty, which I’ve been using for searching for the past few months (their privacy policy is better than the others, although not perfect, and the results are mostly indistinguishable from Google’s or Yahoo’s), has some neat little buttons next to each result that are totally unobtrusive, to the point that I only even realized they were there today, but also extremely useful.
Two of them are kind of standard (open in a new window, and view the cluster for the search result), but the other one is so mindbogglingly obvious that I’m ashamed that they don’t all do this.
It’s preview. Click it and the link opens up in a small frame underneath the result without leaving the page. Even PDFs.
Duh.
Tags: search, ui, interface, clusty, yahoo, google, better, duh
