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Wednesday, March 15, 2006


Adding Search Terms to the Menubar of Web Browsers

Web browsers typically show the title of the web page the user is viewing in the menubar of the application.

However, often, the user reached the page using a specific search term and the search term is a better reminder of what the user was doing than the title of the page selected by the author.

For example, in the image above, I search for "'computer vision' emotion" but the title is "Vision and Modelling Group Research Projects" which is much less descriptive and less personal to me (because I didn't choose it)

This change/addition may be especially relevant when a user is switching back and forth between different web-browser windows because, typically, the menubar text is displayed by the window-manager/operating-system and the user is trying to quickly identify which browser window is which.

This idea was generated by my own personal experience using multiple web-browser windows to find information in an interleaved manner.

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