How Long Does it Take You to Search?
Search engines need to be fast at helping people find information, not create more searching. When people talk about the speed of search or how long it takes for them to find information, more often then not they are talking about how long it takes for results to display from the time you click search. Other times the conversation is likely to become about result relevancy and ranking. While both are extremely important there is another factor to consider. Collectively the amount of time that is spent entering, re-entering, refining and paging through literally millions of results on any given search, is counter productive with the shear volume of information available. Both novice and savvy users are frustrated with this.
The problem is user interface and the interaction of re-entering keywords or refining one search at a time. While this was less of a problem in the earlier days of the internet, today there is simply too much information for one person to search through using conventional means. Many times finding the best keyword or search term to use is in itself a search. This entire process is often combined with misleading results that essentially send users on a wild goose chase which of course adds to the time it takes to actually find the information. What starts of at 0.4 seconds can quickly turn into minutes, hours and in some cases days, even for the savviest user.
People have high expectations. Time is valuable and they want to find information fast. The perception of speed when using any search engine is that if results can be displayed in 0.4 seconds, you can find what you are looking for faster. This may have been true at one point however, is no longer the case.
TWERQ offers a unique and practical solution to this problem. Users can enter and search multiple keywords and phrases simultaneously rather the one at a time. For example, to conduct three searches takes on average 25-30 seconds, depending how fast you type using any conventional search interface. The same three searches can be entered and searched once using TWERQ in 10-15 seconds or less, again depending on how fast you can type. This difference becomes even more apparent when conducting more then three simple searches.
TWERQ is designed to save you time by…
- Searching multiple keywords and phrases simultaneously.
- Reducing the amount of typing required.
- Reducing the need to navigate to new browser windows or tabs.
- Making it easy to identify the best keywords and phases.
- Displaying clean organic results and only one advertisement.
- Collapsing descriptions to quickly skim through just page titles.
- Saving your search to continue later without starting over again
- Shortlisting results so you don’t have to search for them again.
- Collaborating with others to search for the same information.
- Easily access your information anywhere at any time.
For more information visit http://www.twerq.com
Wesley Long
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