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Interface Design Indexing Systems

  The picture shows the interface as it is currently implemented, but with fake data. Starting on the top-left with the information about the spider. Searching with the interface takes time, so the connection between the user and the spider will be lost and rebuilt every once in a while.

From "all" in the left-lop, we decent to the specification of keywords. Those are grouped into

  1. primary keywords (green)
  2. related words (blue)
  3. add depricated words (red)
This will select a huge set of pages. In the bottom-left, plus the histogram, you see selectors based on information related to sets of keywords. Each (possible) limiter is represented by one square.

Next to that, the limiters on the sites are shown. The display of the information related to that is on the same place as for the previous set of limiters, because screen space is limited.

After the selectors did their work, we get a small set of sites (hopefully), which have to be scanned. The right-bottom shows all sites in their relative ranking. The large yellow field show some of the sites, represented by circles.

Read the first paper for more details.

Mark A.C.J. Overmeer, AT Computing bv, 1999.