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> Search is nice but a lot of people like to browse. Could you categorise an item under the search term that people used to look for it? For example, let's sa
by mrlyc 14y ago
> Search is nice but a lot of people like to browse.
Could you categorise an item under the search term that people used to look for it? For example, let's say they enter a search term which brings up a range of items and they click on one. You can then add that item to a category whose name is the search term. Clicking on the category would bring up all the items people searched for successfully in the past.
- polyfractal 14y agoClever...I think I may have that data logged right now. I'll see about retroactively using that data to model categories and see if they are relevant. Thanks!
- yossilac 14y agoYou seem to use a simple search algorithm. I searched for "battery", and only got results that had "battery" in the title. So basically, you could just skip the whole process and make each word in the title a tag... That's unless you're using something more sophisticated and I just didn't realize.
- japhyr 14y agoThis was my first thought as well. If you are not confident in everyone's ability to categorize the items, you could develop some user profiles as described previously, and allow your more knowledgeable users to categorize items. This would be similar to the way HN allows users with a certain karma to downvote, and how StackOverflow has tiers of privileges.