Searching and filtering

Although navigation is visible, and persistently available, search is also important.…Search is an expected feature of nearly all Web sites and applications.…People have been trained by search engines to expect to be able to find and jump…directly to the information they need.…Poor search experiences are just as likely to lead to abandonment as poor…navigational systems.…Keyword search is the most common type;…we only need to enter the important or keywords to get a set of matching results.…However, natural language search is becoming more common, especially as more…people use voice recognition.…

Natural language search allows people to speak or type in sentences, the same…way they would speak to other people,…and the search system processes that search request for meaning, identifies the…keywords, and returns relevant results.…For traditional keyword search to find the capital of France, we might just…enter capital France,…but for natural language search, we might speak, what is the capital of France?…