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I hate sites that highlight search keywords. I am sorry that this broke your feature, but overall glad that no site will be able to do it anymore.
by evmar 15y ago
I hate sites that highlight search keywords. I am sorry that this broke your feature, but overall glad that no site will be able to do it anymore.
- dennisgorelik 15y agoDo you hate using Google search results too? Search keywords in these results are highlighted. If your goal is to hide your intent from web sites you visit - you can just turn off URL Referrer in your browser.
- byrneseyeview 15y agoIt's a rare search that takes me to a page that mentions what I'm searching for exactly once. Search result pages and destination pages serve completely different purposes, and you can't apply the same UI to both. If you ran a restaurant, you might decide to laminate the menus, but I hope you wouldn't laminate the entrees, too.
- dennisgorelik 15y agoIf it doesn't make sense to highlight search keywords that web masters wouldn't do that would they? Highlighting "salmon" menu entries on web site could make sense for the user who is searching for "salmon", wouldn't it? But let's be more specific: I run a job board (PostJobFree) and recruiters frequently find resumes on Goolge in queries like this: http://www.google.com/search?q=intitle%3Aresume+sharepoint+C%23+memphis http://www.google.com/search?q=intitle%3Aresume+sharepoint+C... If you open first result - you can see how these keywords are highlighted. I'm pretty sure that this highlighting is a convenient feature for recruiters who want to quickly scan resume.
- DieBuche 15y agoUgh, you really need some basic formatting. I can't even see where one job ends and another one starts. And the contextless highlight doesn't make that any better.
- chaz 15y agoI don't like it because, often, the keyword I'm looking for is sprinkled throughout the whole page, putting highlights sporadically everywhere. Curious: have you tested/surveyed user preference to having that feature or not?
- dennisgorelik 15y agoI have not tested/surveyed users about, but I personally like highlighting in this case and in ~4 years nobody complained about highlighting.
- cleverjake 15y agoa lot of people don't know what they want until its given as an option. Regardless, its exactly why A/B tests exist
- dennisgorelik 15y agoIt takes some effort to setup such test. There are more important things to do. Besides - there is no point testing it now, considering that Google slowly takes away that option.
- chaz 15y agoYou're right -- it takes time/effort, you know your business better than anyone to figure out if it's worth testing and optimizing. However, the lack of complaints shouldn't be construed as approval or desire.
- jonknee 15y agoHave you asked? I wouldn't go out of my way to let a webmaster know, I would just be annoyed. From the looks of HN replies, this is not uncommon.