The Wikia Search platform which is currently in Alpha has made some progress forward in how a user may interact with the search results. Below I will go over some of the actions a user can take to improve the displayed search results in the new design released this month.
If someone was searching for, lets say, “German Cars”
They would end up with with a page of results much like any other search engine (albeit not as accurate during the alpha stage)
This new design brings a number of new ways to interact with the search results whilst enabling some of the previously dormant features. Here I will take a look at adding and editing a search result.
Say for instance I thought that Mercedes Benz was worthy of a listing in the search results I could use the “Add to this result” feature to add them into the search results.
After clicking on “add” Mercedes Benz will appear in the search results:
As you can see Mercedes are now listed in the search results, although the heading and description don’t really say anything about the site. This is where you edit the result to make it more relevant to other users:
As you can see to the right when you put your mouse over a search result a few more options come up. To modify what the result displays we use the “Edit” link. After clicking on Edit two text fields appear for the title and a description:
After you save these details they will now appear against the search result:
