Thanks for the reassurance :-)
Maybe update
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Google search alongside
Lucene?
Part of what I love about Nabble search results is probably thanks to Lucene. The other part that I love — the clean, simple, minimalist, restrained appearance — is surely thanks to Nabble. The appearance lends itself extremely well to speed-reading and the minimalism is never a barrier to finding something quickly.
I recall reading somewhere that a magic number '3' applies to people's perceptions of Google search results. Something like: if the result is not in the top (uppermost) three, then that result may be overlooked or ignored.
What's interesting here in Nabble is that a higher magic number '10' (results per page) seems to work very well. All ten are easily scanned and when searching becomes complex, I never feel that I'm wasting my time. The
absence of images certainly helps.
(In another environment (Diigo) I'm pleading for appropriate use of well-sized thumbnail images (echoing what I like about
Glims thumbnail enhancements to Safari, and uses of thumbnails in many other environments), but the Diigo use case is very different; most content there is abstracted from web pages that have a 'look and feel'.)
Thanks as always,
Graham