Now, users can easily switch between searches for Handmade, Supplies and Vintage.
kfarrell says:
Here’s latest TechUpdate from the Storque: http://www.etsy.com/storque/section/etsyNews/article/tech-updates-prompt-to-switch-between-searches/2106/
“Since we launched separate drop-down searches for Handmade, Supplies, and Vintage items, we’ve been getting a lot of feedback from buyers and sellers. Thank you to everyone who let us know what you think of the changes — we’re listening!
We wanted to make switching your search between Handmade, Supplies, and Vintage a little easier, so we’ve added a little prompt to the top of the search results page. If you search in Handmade, links to perform the same search in Supplies and Vintage will appear. Searches in Supplies will show links to Handmade and Vintage, and searches in Vintage will show links to Handmade and Supplies.
We hope these changes makes searching on Etsy a little easier for you!”
Posted at 12:38 pm, June 26 2008 EST
Quoted from the companion thread, which can be found here.
June 27th, 2008 at 5:40 pm
If Search truly is improved, I’d sure like to hear from buyers and whether it makes their shopping experience easy enough to result in actual sales.
It would be best if efforts could now be focused on getting rid of stores and sellers who are selling items that are clearly not allowed, and putting a real flagging system into effect. The daily complaints about the huge increase in mass-produced sellers and resellers is so alarming, that it threatens to damage the integrity of the site and all the sellers who adhere to the rules.
June 29th, 2008 at 3:30 am
It’s a little text link on the search results…not much of an impact, but at least they’re trying. Maybe.
June 30th, 2008 at 6:28 am
Uhm, the change they need to make is to NOT have the search default BACK to handmade when somebody is searching for vintage or supplies.
Wanders away, shaking head.