GuessWhatSearch has been designed to aid people during the process of searching for information. Based on analysis, survey data and experience GuessWhatSearch set out to identify the 3 main starting points used by somebody searching for data on the internet.
1: ENGINE BASED APPROACH - Once a search requirement is identified a person will choose the engine they wish to use. This will be based on their experience of result quality and features of favoured engines.
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GEOGRAPHICAL BASED APPROACH - In this case the results must come from a specific country or region, otherwise the resulting links will be unusable. This is because the results returned will saturate the users meaningful results for their
country\region. This may hinder the speed and accuracy of the search and the persons ability to identify the information they require.
3: CATEGORY BASED APPROACH - A search may be based on a specific topic or category (e.g.
sports, maps, news). The user will require a categorical search to obtain relevant results to supplied keywords. Without this additional filtering the search results will include multiple untargeted links.