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Thanks

Yes, we know, the search is still not working as we’d like - sorry.

The reason is we’ve tried to be ‘too smart’ for our own good.

The location search we using employs a ‘map based’ approach, where the location tag is centred around all listings that identify themselves as being ‘in or near’ this location.

At this stage, with only 6500 listings some locations are not correctly centred, with the result some location searches are producing strange results.

As we add more listings, with correct lat and long references, the search will get better.

We are also changing the search weightings, so ‘Name’ will have a much higher weight than it does now; i.e. it should appear above other listings that have the same matching terms; but only in the ‘tags’ or indexed keywords.

We are introducing a fuzzy logic, so you can add or leave our spaces, hypens, etc. and still get the right results.

These updates should go live later this week (by Friday, 9 Nov 2007 Wednesday, 14 Nov 2007)

I hope this answers your search questions at this time.

Greg

The following bugs are known, and marked for attention:

Friendship is duplicated if both parties request independently of each other. If one user requests friendship with another and there is already an inbound request for that user, this needs to be picked up and merged. Resolved in release 1.3.

Image thumbnails are not correctly cropped to 20×20 or 26×26, but retain the aspect ratio of the original. The visible image appears to be cropped, but the canvas is not. Resolved in release 1.3.

Search is not operating as intended. Algorithm needs tweaking.

Map pin is not correctly located for some properties. This is a product of our source data set and can only be corrected by the owner as we do not know these properties Lat & Long.

Friendship search on username not working