Design Search Systems Inside Products
Search & Discovery · search
Updated 2026-07-28
- Product search is different from web search.
- Users usually search because they have a goal:
- Find a file.
- Find a person.
- Find a setting.
- Find an action.
- Support:
- Recent searches.
- Suggestions.
- Filters.
- Categories.
- Rank results by usefulness:
- Relevance.
- Frequency.
- User behavior.
- Search should feel like understanding, not matching words.
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