Lately I have been working quite a bit with search, and have two customers going live with new sites in the comming months. Along with doing the actual implementations I wrote a (danish) whitepaper on search back in september, and I have read a couple of books to really get into the topic. Search patterns from O’Reilly is a really good book, if you need non-technical inspiration on how search can be done. Having spent some time on the subject, I have of course developed some opinions on both the uability and technical aspects, which is the reason I am writing this post.

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After my last post on the faceted search I was asked to elaborate on how it was implemented with MongoDB. So that is just what I will do with this post – giving me the chance to comment a bit on the good and the bad experiences. Even though it was a good overall experience, there will always be things to wish for – the day I say otherwise is the day I should stop being a developer.

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