Apr
In January, I wrote a primer about clustering. I explained that:
… clustering is the automatic organization of search results into sets of results that have something in common. Some search engines and some federated search engines provide clustering features.
I also introduced faceted search, also known as faceted navigation:
This technology guides a user to relevant content by organizing search results in a hierarchical structure and providing labeled choices of paths in the hierarchy to follow. A faceted search system might have a series of pulldown menus that guide a user from the broad category of “Iraq” to “Iraq -> Geography”, to “Iraq -> Geography -> Maps” to “Iraq -> Geography -> Maps -> Baghdad.” Endeca is one vendor that provides faceted searching.
