Google TV search: dual-wielding search and discovery in a large-scale product

  • Authors:
  • Manish Patel;Rich Gossweiler;Mehran Sahami;John Blackburn;David Brown;Andrea Knight

  • Affiliations:
  • Google, Mountain View, CA;Google, Mountain View, CA;Google, Mountain View, CA;Google, Mountain View, CA;Google, Mountain View, CA;Google, Mountain View, CA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Designing interactive user experiences for TV and video
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

In 2006 Google designed and implemented a TV Show search system which featured a dual-navigation control combining a powerful search system with an interactive, personalize-able TV listings grid. The dual-control system allowed users to move fluidly between explicit search and general discovery, obtain detailed information without leaving the global context and construct a personal channel for easy access and recommendations. As a complete system, TV Search integrated with Google's general search page through a mini-listings onebox and also exported information out to Google calendar, Gmail and TiVo. Building this TV Search system as a large-scale product meant addressing many technological, business and fine-grained user experience details. This paper describes the design process including the early designs, the user studies and the details of the final system including the mini-guide, main page dual-control and the integrated services on the detail pages.