David Baker

David Baker is a search analyst at GDS.

Using search data to meet user needs

David Baker, 27 January 2012 - Data, GOV.UK, User research

...get relevant results even with the “wrong” search term. On Directgov when a user searches for license they will get results for licence and the term ‘unemployment benefit’ returns Jobseekers’...

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