http://blog.purevisibility.com/2008/08/an-unscientific-case-study-of-online-curtain-shopping/ Mon, 26 Jul 2010 00:04:17 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://blog.purevisibility.com/2008/08/an-unscientific-case-study-of-online-curtain-shopping/comment-page-1/#comment-753 Dunrie Wed, 27 Aug 2008 01:54:37 +0000 http://blog.purevisibility.com/?p=241#comment-753 Yes, the hard (and cool) part would be to make it flexible enough. I wanted curtains for a 48"x56" window. I bought curtains that were a bit larger than that (52"x63"). So, what I'd love to type into Google would be "curtains size 48"x56" +/- (some number of inches I'm willing to fudge by)". Yes, the hard (and cool) part would be to make it flexible enough. I wanted curtains for a 48″x56″ window. I bought curtains that were a bit larger than that (52″x63″). So, what I’d love to type into Google would be “curtains size 48″x56″ +/- (some number of inches I’m willing to fudge by)”.

]]> http://blog.purevisibility.com/2008/08/an-unscientific-case-study-of-online-curtain-shopping/comment-page-1/#comment-743 Steve Loszewski Tue, 26 Aug 2008 16:07:11 +0000 http://blog.purevisibility.com/?p=241#comment-743 This is actually one way a search engine could improve - if you could enter the curtains and the dimensions directly into Google and get the results you want right off without having to do another search on a site. Semantic search people think that's what the semantic engine will fix. I think with Google experimenting with using sites' search forms they might find a way to do it without drastically altering how they process search results. It'll be interesting how it shapes up. This is actually one way a search engine could improve – if you could enter the curtains and the dimensions directly into Google and get the results you want right off without having to do another search on a site. Semantic search people think that’s what the semantic engine will fix. I think with Google experimenting with using sites’ search forms they might find a way to do it without drastically altering how they process search results. It’ll be interesting how it shapes up.

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