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Filtering and faceted search 0:46
A 46-second explainer of Filtering and faceted search, narrated over the same demo you can try yourself.
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What this video covers
Filtering narrows a list by a rule you set; faceted search lets you stack several such rules - by category, price, size, availability - each drawn from the items' own attributes, and shows how many results each choice would leave. It turns a big, flat result set into something you can carve down to exactly what you want.
Each box you ticked carved the set down and the count fell with it - twelve became a handful you could actually choose from. You never scrolled a wall of results; you described what you wanted and the list obeyed. That's faceting: the user sets the rules, the set narrows to fit.
