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Re: server side sorting & paging? [Virus checked]



denis.havlik@t-mobile.at wrote:

>denis.havlik@t-mobile.at wrote: >> >> I do use google a lot though, and I could imagine >> other apps where zilions of results are returned, and I want to sort >> them by some criteria and give the user a page of results a time back.

>Well, usage of Google is a good example where the user usually refines it's
>search criteria after reading the second page of search results. IMHO most
>normal people are not browsing through search result sets larger than 10 items.


Think you are missing the point: Google results are sorted by some kind of internally defined "quality" factor. Without this sorting, Google would be completely unusable.

I'm really aware of that.

Ciao, Michael.