#23071
Best Practices and Future Visions for Search User Interfaces: Position Paper 
The author argues that progress in search requires vigorous inquiry into how search can be embedded into application environments such as those for decision-making, personal information collecting, and designing.
Hendry, David G. Earthlink (2003). Design>Web Design>User Interface>Search
#21724
The Big Dig: Mining Nuggets of Value
It is difficult to apply the lessons learned from e-commerce search interfaces to more complex ones, such as those for libraries or technical material. This article provides a guide to tailoring search interfaces to users with a persona-based approach.
McDaniel, Scott M. User Experience (2002). Design>Web Design>User Interface>Search
#29766
Many web sites and applications include a search feature. Often they provide an extremely simple search interface consisting of a single text box and a "Go" button. Sometimes, however, the users' tasks call for more sophistication, and guidelines for complex search interfaces are difficult to find. This paper details four levels of search interface, and it provides heuristics (guidelines) to use when designing complex search interfaces. Different solutions are appropriate, depending on the users' motivation and knowledge of their subject, experience using search interfaces, and search goals. Finally, PubMed serves as a useful example to illustrate how these guidelines can be used to analyze existing search interfaces.
McDaniel, Scott M. STC Proceedings (2004). Design>Web Design>User Interface>Search
#24753
Reconciling Information-Seeking Behavior with Search User Interfaces for the Web 
Current search interfaces reflect the inner workings of search technology rather than what we know about how people look for information.
Rose, Daniel E. Earthlink (2002). Design>Web Design>User Interface>Search
#14198
Why Amazon Succeeds -- And Why It Won't Help You
Amazon is one of the best on-site search capabilities we've ever seen. But surprisingly, the reason why it works so well is likely to be the same reason why Search won't work well on your site.
User Interface Engineering (2002). Design>Web Design>User Interface>Search
#34969
Search Goal Redefinition Through User-System Interaction 
The purpose of this research is to examine search goal redefinition during users' interaction with information retrieval systems.
Hider, Philip M. Journal of Documentation (2007). Articles>Web Design>Search>User Interface
