A Search & Discovery Skunk Works?

These are exciting times for people who love this whole Search & Discovery Space.  People are (finally) moving from using search/discovery technology to only facilitate end user searching and expanding into exciting territory. 
 
The interesting aspect of this trend is the ability to dynamically hook together different resources – but this time based on search [...]

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Discovery Architecture: Getting Started With Site Search

A Quick Start Guide
1. Identify Your site’s conversion points
You need to think about conversion points in two different ways here.
First, think of the ultimate site conversion for a website – in context of your company’s overall objectives.
Second, think of intermediate conversions needed to get people to your ulimate site conversion.
Third, think about how these intermediate [...]

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Getting Your Money’s Worth from Search and Navigation?

Glad that you are joining the conversation about Discovery Architecture.
As far as I can tell, “Discovery Architecture” is a new term except in the realm of web services.  (If you’ve heard it in another place, please let know!)  The term, as I use it, comes out of conversations I’ve had with a number people over twenty years (not [...]

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Invitation to a Conversation

Lately, I’ve been talking with a good friend about how to build and evaluate an architecture that moves people from wherever they enter a website towards specific resource pages as efficiently as possible.  A good conversation is developing … and it’s one that I’ve had with many people in a variety of contexts over the years.  [...]

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