[hibernate-dev] HSEARCH Faceting and facet counts

[Sanne Grinovero]

oh, I actually played with the Amazon site before replying to you and
the quick (too brief) experiments I had done seemed to endorse my
theory.

After a better look now, it seems they apply a different strategy
depending on the selection; I think the way they do it makes sense but
it's impressive that the user is fooled into a non-consistent API, and
it still "feels" like all is consistent.

On 3 June 2013 14:10, Emmanuel Bernard <emmanuel at hibernate.org> wrote:
> On Mon 2013-06-03 10:28, Sanne Grinovero wrote:
>> On 3 June 2013 09:59, Hardy Ferentschik <hardy at hibernate.org> wrote:
>> >
>> > On 31 Jan 2013, at 11:32 PM, Emmanuel Bernard <emmanuel at hibernate.org> wrote:
>> >
>> >> I know we had a debate but I can't seem to find any detail in the
>> >> documentation about how facet selection influences the facet counts.
>> >>
>> >> In my demo, the facet count is applied after the selection. ie if I do a
>> >> query that returns '< $100' = 20 and '> $100' = 45, once I select '<
>> >> $100', the count displayed on '> $100' = 0 which is very weird from a
>> >> use point of view.
>>
>> Right that looks weird, but shouldn't you be hiding the other facets
>> after having selected one?
>> I would expect a UI to potentially show new sub-facets only, to allow
>> a user to drill into more details.
>
> The thing is, if you select a price range, you want to be able to select
> the other price range, so you can't "hide it".
>
> Play a bit with Amazon's version
> http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=sr_nr_p_n_size_browse-bin_3?rh=n%3A3151491%2Ck%3AUSB%2Cp_n_size_browse-bin%3A1259713011&keywords=USB&ie=UTF8&qid=1370264935&rnid=1259751011