Saturday, October 11, 2014

Searching versus sorting on the web

At present web traversal is search heavy. If you go to amazon.com and search for something (say a tablet) a bunch of results are returned back and you will have to wade through the results to find what you are looking for.
Imagine if this is the case if you go to your local store where a bunch of devices are randomly arranged on the shelves. Wouldn't you be confused.
In physical stores items are sorted based on category then probably based on manufacturer, then again based on size etc. Say tablets in one section computers in another TVs in another. Then again within tablets we will see arranged all devices of a manufacturer together etc.
So in physical stores items are sorted with minimal search and in the web items are listed with minimal sort.
I think it would be better for the user if some more sorting would be available on the web.

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