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gradsearch (re:search) is a website to connect students with professors who study their research interests.
www.gradschoolsearch.org
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Autofill too specific at times #10

Open rambhask opened 12 years ago

rambhask commented 12 years ago

We don;t have too many professors in there, and many times the autofill provides suggestions which yield only one or two professors...perhaps we should have at least 5-10 professors before making suggestions? Or offer smaller autocompletes?

i.e. starting to search "app" gives the first few results as "application of controls and modeling to the design of mechanical systems" where there is only one professor.

rcoh commented 12 years ago

I'm not sure what the problem here is...

You don't want to make it so that you need 5-10 profs to make suggestions -- if you did that, you wouldn't be able to get autocomplete on a professor that you knew the name of..

rambhask commented 12 years ago

hmm yeah that makes sense. My only real issue was that a lot of the times when I was starting to search for something, the autofill gave me too specific of a response before giving a simpler one. Not sure if its a big deal, but maybe if we could order it a little differently?

On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 3:08 PM, Russell notifications@github.com wrote:

I'm not sure what the problem here is...

You don't want to make it so that you need 5-10 profs to make suggestions -- if you did that, you wouldn't be able to get autocomplete on a professor that you knew the name of..

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Ram Bhaskar Massachusetts Institute of Technology '14 Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department of Mathematics Email: rambhask@mit.edu