Parameterized Action Links in Search Results
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users face inefficiencies when searching for specific information or performing actions on websites, as they often need to browse through pages to find relevant information or repeat processes across different websites, due to the lack of consistent deeplinks and parameterized actions in search results.
Innovation Solution
The implementation of action-based deeplinks and parameterized actions within search results, which categorize websites, identify common actions and parameters, and provide pre-populated values based on user context, allowing users to directly access specific actions and perform tasks across similar websites with reduced navigation and data entry.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of time
If users manually browse and search pages within websites to find relevant information, then they can access the information they need, but the process becomes time-consuming and inefficient
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by analyzing websites within categories to identify common parameterized actions and their parameters before users need them. This analysis is stored and reused when generating search results, eliminating the need for users to manually browse and allowing direct access to relevant actions with pre-populated parameters.
2Adaptability or versatility
If users repeat the process of visiting websites, finding relevant pages, and entering criteria across multiple real estate websites, then they can search for houses meeting their criteria on different platforms, but the process becomes inefficient and repetitive
Solution Approach 1:
The system creates a universal interface for parameterized actions that works across multiple websites within a category. By identifying common actions and parameters across different real estate websites, the system allows users to perform the same search operation on multiple platforms through a single unified interaction, eliminating repetitive manual processes.
3Productivity
If search results provide direct access to parameterized actions with pre-populated values, then user efficiency improves, but the system complexity increases due to website categorization and action analysis
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs the complex website categorization and action analysis in advance, before users need the information. This preliminary processing creates a reusable knowledge base that simplifies subsequent search operations, allowing the system to provide enhanced functionality without adding complexity to the user experience.
4Ease of operation
If the system provides parameterized actions directly in search results, then users can perform actions without navigating to website pages, but the implementation requires identifying and analyzing common actions across website categories
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs the complex analysis of identifying common parameterized actions across website categories in advance. This preliminary action creates a structured knowledge base that enables simple, direct presentation of actions in search results without requiring complex real-time analysis during user interactions.
Data Source
AI summary
Parameterized actions are provided with search results to allow users to enter parameter values and perform the actions directly from the search results. By analyzing websites in a category, a parameterized action available at the websites and common parameters may be identified. When an end user performs a search that returns a web page result from a website having the parameterized action, an indication of the parameterized and common parameters may be provided as part of the search result. Additionally, user interface elements may allow the end user to enter parameter values to perform the parameterized action directly from the search result. In some instances, user context may be employed to pre-populate parameter values in the search result.