On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 1:51 PM, Tomasz Finc <tfinc@wikimedia.org> wrote:
As we've continued with our beta (http://bit.ly/w4E2zn) its becoming
abundantly clear from feedback and our own research that we need to
get better about search. Search is the primary way that people start
their interaction with Wikipedia and we currently do it poor at best
on mobile.
We've taken the first stabs at it
* Change the search input box to stretch to full width (horizontal & landscape)
* Lower the amount of search results and increase the font size of
what we do show
* Include spaces in between results to better segment each item
* Add a "+" to refine search term by term (our search data set will
need to get better to make this more awesome)
I took a look at a lot of mobile sites and one stuck out to me as
really interesting for search.
bing.com (yes i know its microsoft .. lets pay attention to the design
rather then the ideology)
Go to their site on a mobile (on a mobile) and start typing in text.
Notice how its now stolen your whole screen for search? Its loud but
thats the point. People are searching and moving forward. Not
interacting with the content thats on the screen.