Last night we released a nifty new feature on the results page that allows any user to delete, promote, edit or add search results right from the results page. Now, in addition to the "implicit" votes that users cast by clicking on results, they can vote "explicitly". And because we used magical AJAX tecnology, they can do it without ever leaving the page. Power to the people!
If you are the swicki owner/moderator your votes count instantly. Changes suggested by other users are logged in a queue for moderator approval. Once the moderator OKs the suggestions, they will be seen by the entire community.
This really does enable groups of users to create, share and help each other build fantastic vertical search engines.
In designing the interface, we were careful to avoid peppering the results with what our Creative Director Joy calls "page acne" - repetitive icons or links that you don't use most of the time but make the results illegible. So you only see the icons when you mouseover a specific result, but they keep to the right side, out of the way.
When you mouse over the icons themselves, they then expand and explain what they can do. Clicking on any of them brings up an in-page dialog box allowing you to express your endoresement of an underappreciated result, or dissatisfaction with an irrelevant result. Without having to leave the comfort of the page.
Comments (2)
Nice feature - Ijust used it last night after finding your web app just a few hours before.
You may want to modify some of the icons. The difference between icons that are normal weight and bold is a little too subtle. Not that it prevented me from using the feature - just had to think about it for a sec.
Posted by Hans | April 7, 2006 3:27 PM
Hans - Thanks for the feedback. You make a good point about the icons, and we love good feedback. Especially from folks at SimplyHired who know and use the DHTML AJAX mojo.
We'll push an updated set of icons in our next revision release.
Posted by Tac | April 8, 2006 8:39 AM