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December 19, 2005

Search Sucks

The localized search engine sucks on most web sites including my own. I want to find information my way, your way, our way, not the web designers way. Grrrrrrrrrr. On several occasions this weekend I was searching for products and couldn’t find anything with the poor excuse for a search engine. For example, I wanted to get on Realtor.com and locate land that’s for sale with 2 hours of our current residence. Sounds simple: Show me all of the land only sales within 120 miles of my zip code. Nope, if you can get the Land Only option to work, your required to key in the city. But I don’t care what city. Actually, the realtor search engine was the best on out there which isn’t saying much. The search community needs an enema.

Note to self: When your search engine does not work, your revenue will be impacted.... Negatively

Posted by Todd at December 19, 2005 12:43 PM