Random Passerby — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 13:40:49 GMT

“We can show additional information like the department, title or a photo of Tim Campbell so that the user can confirm that it’s the person he is looking for.”

The interesting thing is that, without this additional feature, a list of suggestions is close to useless, especially if you end up with more than one suggestion.
If I can recognize Tim by his phone number or email address, why not let me search by phone number or email address? You could even go so far as to have a few fields to describe Tim’s photo (“male”, “dark hair”, “glasses”, ...).

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