Dear website designer types,

[Hoosier]

Please become somwhat familier with the products the company sells. When I type in Spray paint I would like to see what they have in the line of Spray paint. Not, the Ocean Spray carpet. That really does not help me paint.

As a web developer, I can tell you that full-text searching is much trickier than you would imagine. Also, you have to deal with the quality of the data set, which is usually entered by low paid data entry folks, who get paid by the item entered, not the quality of the world.

Tip #1, search for "spray paint" with the quotes, so it knows that it's one concept not two

Tip #2, go to google, search for site:lowes.com "spray paint" this will find all pages about spray paint on lowes.com, and Google is often better at searching merchants sites than the merchant.

H.

[ChunkyMonkey]

Since we are on the topic.. I need a free lance developer to transfer a site to a new host for me... the typical database setup etc etc.

PM if interested.

[Marlin]

As a web developer, I can tell you that full-text searching is much trickier than you would imagine. Also, you have to deal with the quality of the data set, which is usually entered by low paid data entry folks, who get paid by the item entered, not the quality of the world.

Tip #1, search for "spray paint" with the quotes, so it knows that it's one concept not two

Tip #2, go to google, search for site:lowes.com "spray paint" this will find all pages about spray paint on lowes.com, and Google is often better at searching merchants sites than the merchant.

H.

Where do you think I was when I ran into this Dilemma...




I'll try the google though..

Tried it real quick in another window, took me right back to the same page..

ETA; Hoosier, I was laughing more at the fact when I typed in "spray paint" into the "narrow search" box, I came up with 14 pages with 30 items to a page, of "Things that spray" and only 4 of them (minus the duplicates.) were paint related..