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Richer Interactions after “Search”. David Huynh Research Scientist Metaweb Technologies Inc. keywords. suggestions. filters. vizualization. Examples. “Schools attended by children of Republican US presidents”
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Richer Interactionsafter “Search” David Huynh Research Scientist Metaweb Technologies Inc.
keywords suggestions
filters vizualization
Examples • “Schools attended by children of Republican US presidents” • “Structures designed by architects who have designed skyscrapers located in Hong Kong” • Try those on your favorite search engines
2 New Ideas • Set-based browsing • 18 presidents » 62 children » 30 schools • Complex queries disguised as web links • Users do their own visualizations
User Perspective • When you don’t know the data • Shopping for a car for the first time • When you can’t formulate the query as keywords • Find a piece of furniture that matches my decor • When the answer isn’t a sentence • What is the correlation between X and Y?
Business Perspective • Help users understand the data • Help users formulate advanced queries and find more stuff • Engage users longer • Extend relationships with users to off site • Embedding visualizations built on interesting queries
Try It Out • Parallax browser • http://mqlx.com/~david/parallax/ • Open source • Built on Freebase • Questions?