When the team initially sat down to discuss our site redesign, we all believed the main goal of the new site should be easier navigation. We chose a few core ways to go about this:
1. Simple pages (less is more)
2. Fast load times
3. Improved Header
4. Improved Search
Search is very important because no matter how good we make our user interface for browsing, we have so much content and data on our site that it is impossible to reveal it all just through a browsing interface. Music is classically long-tail and search and long-tail were made for each other.
The most obvious improvement we made was to switch to a more classic layout of results. Our old page presented results grouped by category. While this aided in finding the type of asset you were searching for (song, video, picture, etc,) it did not put the best result up top. If you were searching for a video, you had to scroll past artists, albums and songs to get to videos. The new page displays the best results -- regardless of content type -- descending from the top.
The second improvement we made was to include our editorial and news results on the page. The old page only displayed results from music.aol.com for artists, videos, etc. The new page searches our entire network of sites including Spinner, The Boot, The Boombox and more. This unlocks all the original content we have along side all the results we previously displayed.
The third improvement was speed. Results now display a lot faster than they ever did.
We hope the new search page allows you to quickly and easily find the content you want. We are not done yet improving this page but felt like we reached a level with it that was such an improvement on the previous page that it was worth releasing now. We will continue to tweak the page based on feedback we receive from you. Please let us know what you think.
Not sure what to search for? Here is a search to get you started - http://music.aol.com/search/?query=jack+johnson
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How do I go about updating my Artist's page? All it has is my name and I'd like to add more information. Thank you.
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