This may have already been mentioned on this list, but Northern Light was a search engine that created folders that served as facets as far back as 1997/98. See http://web.archive.org/web/19980206192654/http://www.northernlight.com/ for an example.
--Steve
Steve Watkins
Coordinator of Technology Development
CSU Monterey Bay Library
steve_watkins_at_csumb.edu
Next generation catalogs for libraries <NGC4LIB_at_listserv.nd.edu> writes:
>Didn't Visivismo have faceted browsing? I remember folders or something
>similar.
>
>Shawn
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Next generation catalogs for libraries
>> [mailto:NGC4LIB_at_listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of Andrew Nagy
>> Sent: Monday, March 19, 2007 3:34 PM
>> To: NGC4LIB_at_listserv.nd.edu
>> Subject: Re: [NGC4LIB] Patents on faceted navigation: what's
>> the impact?
>>
>> Danielle Plumer wrote:
>> > "Prior art" is the way to attack patents such as these, as
>> Nancy states.
>> >
>> > The Open Source Development Laboratories has an "Open
>> Source as Prior Art" site at http://osapa.org/. The goal is
>> to protect innovation by reviewing, and challenging as
>> necessary, "poor quality" patents that threaten the
>> development of new software tools.
>> >
>> I have been surfing around the Wayback Machine on archive.org to find
>> instances of Faceted searching, but have not found much. It's hard to
>> find a site on the wayback machine that has more than the
>> front page. I
>> have looked at dell.com, ebay.com, cnet.com and since I cannot use the
>> searching mechanism it's hard to find instances of faceted search
>> results, but even so I haven't found good instances of
>> faceted browsing
>> with results on the same screen. Before 2001 that is.
>>
>> Andrew
>>
Received on Mon Mar 19 2007 - 14:40:10 EDT