WorldCat.org Adds Suggested Search Terms Feature
You’ve seem many web search resources offering search suggestions as you enter your query into the search box. With each letter entered the results can change.
Now, WorldCat.org now also offering this feature with suggestions appearing where you’ve seen them elsewhere, directly below the search box. Click on a suggestion and run the search for the word or phrase.
Alice Sneary on the WorldCat Blog also points out that, “The most-used terms and phrases at the top [of the suggestions].”
She adds, “The new suggested search complements the “Did you mean?” prompt, that happens when you might have used a search term that looks like it might be misspelled.”
If you’re wondering if search suggestions can be toggled on an off, so are we. We’re asking OCLC and will update.
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About Gary Price
Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com. Gary is also the co-founder of infoDJ an innovation research consultancy supporting corporate product and business model teams with just-in-time fact and insight finding.
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