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“Zari: Exploratory Search”

“Zari: Exploratory Search”

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“Zari: Exploratory Search”
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Exploratory Search

Problem

The knowledge about a topic is dispersed across a variety of sources: books, newletters, tweets, podcast clips, and web pages. It cannot be easily ranked algorithmically.

Solution

Zari is a tool to explore the network of related topics and sources for a query, and collect their findings into guides.

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Storyboard

The user starts the journey by searching in the search box. The query can be also be a natural language question.

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Semantically relevant results are shown, grouped by their source (e.g. creator, subreddit, etc).

If a particular source seems promising, the user can narrow their search within that source to find more relevant content.

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The user can also pivot their search based on semantically relevant terms that are mentioned in the results.

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As the user finds relevant snippets of content, they can add it to a “shopping bag” type collection for their search.

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The contents of the “shopping bag” can be arranged into a Zari thread and shared so that others can benefit from the user’s curation and research.

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Value Prop

Searchers can pivot their queries to understand a topic, in a way that is not supported by traditional search engines.

Other users can benefit from the ‘golden threads’ that searchers before them have curated.

References

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