Over the past few years we’ve seen a drastic improvement in search interfaces.  The development of ugly search boxes and incomprehensible search result screens should now (hopefully) be a thing of the past.  New search UI’s are designed and developed daily, that are crisp, clean, well thought out, and really help guide users to the information they’re looking for.  Search based concepts and technologies are finally starting to be properly recognized as being as important as the content they’re put in place to help discover.  A clean, well thought out search user interface not only makes a large difference in helping users navigate site information, but also goes a long ways towards bringing users back for more. (more…)