{"id":1782,"slug":"hawksearch-few-dozen-products-static-list-fine","title":"HawkSearch (vendor — concedes against interest) — for catalogs of \"just a few dozen products,\" basic search and navigation are adequate","kind":"reference","scope":"business","status":"current","audiences":["kevin","smb-owner","candid-team"],"topics":["editorial-discipline","faceted-search"],"reference_body":"**Claim:** \"If your online catalog has just a few dozen products, basic search and navigation tools might be adequate.\"\n\n**Source:** HawkSearch (vendor — sells search software, incentive to inflate need; here it concedes against interest), \"If They Can't Find It, They Can't Buy It\" (accessed June 2026).\n\n**Confidence:** Industry-consensus (vendor-against-interest, corroborated by [[prefixbox-under-200-products-skip-faceted-cutoff]] and [[luigis-box-few-hundred-products-skip-faceted-corroboration]]).\n\n**Why this matters for Candid:** When a search-software vendor tells you not to buy their software, the floor of the recommendation is credible. Use as the *first* skip-threshold citation for SMB clients with small catalogues. Anchors [[rule-skip-faceted-search-below-200-items-stable-shallow]].","rationale_body":null,"metadata":null,"links":{"outgoing":[{"slug":"nngroup-faceted-overkill-tradeoff-interaction-cost","title":"Nielsen Norman Group — faceted navigation adds interaction cost and vocabulary/metadata maintenance \"consumes significant financial and human resources\"","kind":"reference","scope":"business","link_type":"relates-to"},{"slug":"rule-skip-faceted-search-below-200-items-stable-shallow","title":"R2 — Skip faceted search when the inventory is small (~under 200 items), stable, and shallow; a static list is fine","kind":"rule","scope":"business","link_type":"relates-to"}],"incoming":[{"slug":"research-brief-searchable-structured-catalogue-working-tool-june-2026","title":"Research brief: the searchable, structured catalogue as a working tool — when records-not-prose pays off (June 2026)","kind":"reference","scope":"business","link_type":"relates-to"},{"slug":"prefixbox-under-200-products-skip-faceted-cutoff","title":"Prefixbox (vendor — faceted-search software, concedes against interest) — skip faceted search if catalog <200 products; implementation cost outweighs UX value","kind":"reference","scope":"business","link_type":"relates-to"},{"slug":"luigis-box-few-hundred-products-skip-faceted-corroboration","title":"Luigi's Box (vendor) — independently corroborates the skip cutoff: \"smaller catalogs with only a few hundred products may not require this level of complexity\"","kind":"reference","scope":"business","link_type":"relates-to"},{"slug":"caveats-searchable-catalogue-no-isolated-study-vendor-skip-thresholds","title":"Caveats for the searchable-catalogue brief: no study isolates catalogues as a variable; vendor-sourced skip thresholds; Baymard age; AI-eligibility under-sourced","kind":"reference","scope":"business","link_type":"relates-to"},{"slug":"quarantine-vendor-faceted-search-adoption-percentages","title":"QUARANTINE — \"60% of websites do not use facets and filters\" / \"only 10% of e-commerce sites use faceted sorting\"","kind":"research-notes","scope":"business","link_type":"relates-to"},{"slug":"rule-skip-faceted-search-below-200-items-stable-shallow","title":"R2 — Skip faceted search when the inventory is small (~under 200 items), stable, and shallow; a static list is fine","kind":"rule","scope":"business","link_type":"depends-on"}]},"created_at":"2026-06-21T13:17:12.698Z","updated_at":"2026-06-21T13:17:12.698Z"}