Feature Proposal: Improve the readability of search results

Motivation

This would make it much easier to evaluate search results and find the right wiki topic you were searching for

Description and Documentation

1. in the list of search results, show the text of the first occurance of a header line (h1...h6) instead of the topic name (ThisIsMyTopic). Example for this topic: Show as the header of a search result "Feature Proposal: Improve the readability of search results" and not "ImproveSearchResultsList" (or show the!ImproveSearchResultsList in brackets at the end of the topic "human readable" headline).

2. highlight the first occurance (bold or bg color) of the search term in the search result summary as done by Google or other web search engines

Examples

See above.

Impact

WhatDoesItAffect:

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Implementation

-- Contributors: SvenFink - 29 Sep 2009

Discussion

Some useful links

• Search Results Design: Best Practices and Design Patterns
• Search Behavior Patterns
• Patterns in interaction design: search results

-- MichaelDaum - 29 Sep 2009

Some of this functionality is provided by SearchSummaryPlugin (plugin is still in TWiki namespace).

Update: highlighting search terms is now offered by core. -- ArthurClemens - 16 Feb 2011

-- ArthurClemens - 29 Sep 2009

Improving search results is also requested in ListFormatViewAndEditTemplate.

-- ArthurClemens - 16 Feb 2011