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Inside Guardian.co.uk: Designing search for The Guardian site

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"I did a piece of search log analysis, where I examined the 500 most popular queries used on the site during a month, and classified them into broad types. 28% of the most popular queries were for what I classed as 'Guardian Navigation', i.e. queries like 'crossword', 'G2' or 'podcast'. The second most popular type of query was for a person's name, making up 27%. These names included Guardian contributors, political figures, sporting figures and celebrities. The third most popular type of query was location based. Often these were simple one word searches for a country name, and in total these made up 23% of the top 500 search terms. "

currybetdotnet: Navigating newspapers: Part 1 – We are what we label

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Martin Belam: "The names, language and labels that we use to describe things unwittingly tells people a lot about our attitudes and beliefs. The order in which we describe things helps communicate the relative importance and interest we place in them. So I thought it would be interesting to look across the UK newspaper website landscape and look at the way the papers sign-post their content to the user. In short, how do they label their navigation?"