Walking up the taxonomy tree at the BBC
Martin Belam has, in the process of writing about some past search problems, explains the search taxonomy at BBC. To quote:
This worked brilliantly, and looked very, very clever on the front-end. So, in 2001 on the BBC's site search, if you searched for 'Seth Johnson', Bromsgrove found the 'Seth Johnson' node, saw there was no URL, walked up the tree and found 'Derby County'. The results returned would then have a best link to BBC Sport's coverage of Derby County at #1. It gave the impression to the user that the search engine understood that Seth Johnson was a Derby County player, and also was probably the best result given the quality of some of the site search results at the time.
Posted by jamesr on December 04, 2007 05:59 AM
Categories: Information architecture, Search tools
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