title: Should a search page have a clear button?
body: <p>Its probably a very subjective question, but here it goes....We're building a website that will provide basic and advanced search criteria. The advanced search criteria will be upto 50 fields, checkboxes, textboxes, etc.</p>
  
  <p>I had a look at some popular websites, and a few of them like <a href="http://www.google.com/advanced_product_search" rel="nofollow">http://www.google.com/advanced_product_search</a> do not have a clear button. I can't decide if there should be a clear button and the case for or against it. </p>
  
  <p>I do understand that we have a lot of fields and the users could potentially want to clear all the fields that they entered. I know that these requirements should come from the client, but they can't decide if they want one or not.</p>
  
  <p>So what would be the case for or against it? Any help would be greatly appreciated.</p>