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Author Topic: New Search Tweak at Cutcaster. Opinions?  (Read 4101 times)

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« Reply #1 on: October 22, 2009, 12:48 »
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Good attempt.

I did find a lot of errors.  I did a search alternately for American Bald Eagle, Bald Eagle, and Eagle.  The search for Eagle returned the most hits and had the most errors.  In all cases not all Eagle photos were included in the search.  In the Eagle search what came back included Euro coins, Castles, Flags (with no eagle in the photo or description), landscapes (some had Eagle as part of the name but no Eagle in the photo so I can understand those), owls (some were called Eagle Owl-which are not Eagles but I can see how the search engine would include them), hawks (same as for Owl), etc.

Still--the search is easier to use and returns more hits than the old search engine.

Marburg

« Reply #2 on: October 22, 2009, 13:24 »
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I did notice that when I changed from the default 20 to 100 results per page, it went back to 20 again on the next search.  That would be a PITA if I was a buyer.  I am using firefox.

« Reply #3 on: October 22, 2009, 21:57 »
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As I wrote already in private and in more detail, the multiple word search now seems AND (what a buyer would expect) and the substring match are gone, this is a huge improvement. There is still an issue with compound keywords where the individual terms in the compound seem to trigger a match.


« Reply #5 on: October 22, 2009, 23:45 »
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@FD I have noticed that the new changes have been resulting in more sales even today so I am excited to see what starts to happen to conversions.

Glad to hear that. Before, it was indeed a buyer's inferno, especially with the OR. Your bounce rate should go down too, by less disappointed prospective buyers.

When I now look for "plane sunset", most matches are actually planes in a sunset, not planes AND sunset as before. Don't forget the other issues in the PM: those are buyer oriented improvements.

There is still an issue with "asian cook", which returns oriental dishes mostly on the first page. That's unavoidable without disambiguation but adding "person" to the string works fine: "asian cook person" returns mostly oriental cooks (person). If everybody added "person" and/or "nobody" to the relevant shots, buyer's lifes would be easier.
« Last Edit: October 23, 2009, 00:14 by FD-amateur »




 

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