AutoComplete with Suggestion Groups from Sematext.
From the post:
While Otis is talking about our new Search Analytics (it’s open and free now!) and Scalable Performance Monitoring (it’s also open and free now!) services at Lucene Eurocon in Barcelona Pascal, one of the new members of our multinational team at Sematext, is working on making improvements to our search-lucene.com and search-hadoop.com sites. One of the recent improvements is on the AutoComplete functionality we have there. If you’ve used these sites before, you may have noticed that the AutoComplete there now groups suggestions. In the screen capture below you can see several suggestion groups divided with pink lines. Suggestions can be grouped by any criterion, and here we have them grouped by the source of suggestions. The very first suggestion is from “mail # general”, which is our name for the “general” mailing list that some of the projects we index have. The next two suggestions are from “mail # user”, followed by two suggestions from “mail # dev”, and so on. On the left side of each suggestion you can see icons that signify the type of suggestion and help people more quickly focus on types of suggestions they are after.
Very nice!
Curious how you would distinguish “grouping suggestions” from faceted navigation? (I have a distinction in mind but curious about yours.)