Pinterest's new guided search helps you explore visually on your phone with filters you can tap and remove instantly. Search for chairs and get options like DIY or colors; search hairstyles and filter by hair length and face shape. It's built for browsing, not typing.
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Introducing today and we called it guided search. So what's guided search? Guided search is an approach to search that focuses on exploration rather than information retrieval.
It focuses on teaching you all the.
Different directions you could go. Instead of giving you just one answer. We can do the same query that we did before. Let's say I'm really interested in chairs. I type it in. We work really hard to make it.
Fast and simple on the phone. And instantly across the top I start to see possibilities.
DIY repurposed wood, red, blue living room.
Sitting room, and anyone that catches my eye. It's really easy for me to touch it and tap it and see those.
Search results updated in real time.
Maybe I'm now interested in these two types of chairs.
I can add more criteria and there's.
No way to mess it up.
It's not like if you find yourself in a place you didn't want to.
Be, you have to start from the beginning.
Like regular search engines, it's easier for you to remove items, to add new.
Items, just so you can narrow it.
Down to exactly what you were looking for.
We think that search in the future can be a discovery tool.
With a guided search in particular can make it easy to do on the device that's most important to you, which is your phone. What does it mean to be good on a phone?
It means that it should be a.
Lot less typing like this and a.
Lot more browsing like that. It means that it should be fun, it should be simple, it should be visual and it should be fast.
And that's going to be called guided search for chairs are pretty boring. Let's say something near and dear at.
Least to both of my sisters hearts.
When they were growing up.
Something really, really hard to search for online. Let's take hairstyles. Before starting this company, I didn't even know there was so much to learn about hair science. But if you type it in, guided search will start showing you possibilities. And the uncanny thing about guided search is they're not possibilities that were extracted from a database. They sound just the way that your.
Best friend would talk about all these different options.
Because all these words came from the.
Descriptions and data of real people, you.
Can quickly narrow the gap. You can say, I want hairstyles in.
Medium hair, round faces, curly hair. Update and guided search will help you navigate through all those options instantly and quickly.
