Usability Views Article Details  home | timeline | recent | popular | e-reports | userati | books | about  Empowering Search through Genres (17 Apr 2005) The advantages, I hope, are clear. Utilizing genre allows the results to speak to whatever task the user brought to the search. If someone types "information architecture" into Google, they could be engaged in any number of tasks -- self-teaching, looking for consulting help, looking for a definition, considering a career change, looking for a professional association, conducting research, etc. etc. Who knows? By offering genres as a filter, people can use that to narrow the results to those which are personally relevant at this time. Article URL: http://www.peterme.com/archives/000488.html Read 20 more articles from By Special Request sorted by date, popularity, or title. Next Article: Bella and Yakov and Tillie's Panties: What I Learned in “Construction and Maintenance of Indexing Languages and Thesauri”     This site is a labour of love built by Chris McEvoy