One characteristic that unites the community of information professionals is their outspokenness.  One of our users, Kristen Whitman from The Intellogist, wrote, “I feel like I’ve encountered many other search engines with a form called Fielded Search, but they never did anything like searching within tables and graphs, or for ranges of property values, like Knovel can.”  Kristen has updated her information database to point users to Knovel Lab and predicts that our users will be excited about the enhancements we’re planning.  Thanks Kristen!
After collecting the feedback, we huddled together with the name candidates.  Advanced Search was considered first, and rejected as it does not fit the mode: searches the same content with a more sophisticated framework of index and field selections.  Materials Properties Search went down as too confining, as did Numeric Range Search.   How could we convey a search capability that retrieves data that is housed in graphs, equations and tables?   What about Graph, Equation, Table Search? Too long. But the acronym was staring us right in the face; why not GET Search?

We believe that GET Search is a name that does justice to the new and improved design for a powerful feature that delivers results in Knovel’s interactive tools – the Graphs, Equations and Tables.  GET Search goes into the Knovel Lab next week, and, for the next few weeks, we’re inviting our users to come try on the name as well as the new design and tell us what you think.