(photo by ExtJS)

Search is the life blood of the internet. When you are at a loss and you can not seem to find the web page, file or image that you are looking for, search comes to the rescue.

While search has become faster, more robust and efficient in the back-end, very little has changed in the user interface.

One of Solutiongrove's clients was quite inspired by the UI on AjaxFS that they sent us a mockup that was loosely based on it for use on the search section of their site.

We implemented it on solutiongrove.com and you can see it and try it out in http://www.solutiongrove.com/search/.

Just like AjaxFS the new Search UI is based on ExtJS. 

A notable difference between this search ui and your ordinary search page is that we decided to use a livegrid. The livegrid is an extension of the ExtJs grid widget where datasets are fetched in the background dynamically as the user scrolls down the search results as opposed to making the user click on buttons to move to next or previous search result sets.

The old adage goes, "If ain't broken, don't fix it".

The jury is still out on whether this is a better way to get search results, so what do you think ?