Site Search Improvement

[Nigelb]

Please could you change the way site search works so that a search on a particular product brings up that product first, rather than products that have the same word in their description.

eg we have a product called an EGG, if you search on EGG, that product comes up no. 6 after kitchen composter, and 2 desk tidies, apart from other things - most of which have nothing to do with it.

This will mean lost sales!

So please make the search look at the short description first and other text after, not the other way round.

Thanks!

[Mike Hughes]

Agreed.

I think an improved search facility is due. People are used to using decent search functionality now and expect the results to be properly ranked in order of relevance.

The other thing I'd like to see is:

- Resulting pages not being parsed via cgi-bin scripts. The SERPS page can highlight the found keywords but there's no need to highlight them when you click through to the product page.

- The ability to produce popular search pages that are indexable . Maplin somehow do this and get these pages indexed in Google. In principle a search page for 'widgets' should rank well in Google for 'widgets' as long as it has a unique filename and some link love (maybe just a link to it in the site map).

Mike

[acompton]

I have a lot of products that are easy to mis-spell, so an auto-prompting search is something I'd be keen on (working on product names only).

[Rich Brady]

One for me too please