Improved WSO Search

Hey guys, just a quick update. We have made some improvements to WSO Search in the last few weeks. We hope this will make finding the best information in the WSO archives much easier:

1. New "Company Search Results" section at top of results...so many times, when users are searching for company specific information, they didn't realize the goldmine of information right in the WSO Company Database. Now we are distinguishing between Company Search Results and Community Search Results so that if there is a lot of data on a specific company in the company DB, you can see that up front and get to it right away ...

2. New order facet for Silver Bananas!!!...you can filter the community search results by # of comments...but now you also can filter the results based on the # of Silver Bananas given to the original post! We think this is another way for users to pull out some of the best content from the archives

3. Remove unpublished spam content from search index...made some fixes to get this crap out

4. Auto-complete (coming later today)...later today, as you type in the search boxes, you'll be given suggestions based on the letters you're typing to save you some more time.

As always, we welcome your feedback!

Enjoy!
Patrick

 

Glad to see you guys are tackling this issue. Search has been so not user-friendly until now.

You know you've been working too hard when you stop dreaming about bottles of champagne and hordes of naked women, and start dreaming about conditional formatting and circular references.
 

That's pretty great.

The only other suggestion I would suggest (lulz) is something to sort by date. Seems like a simplish thing to do. So that way I can pull up the most recent content on trading or insurance, rather than what appears to be a random order? Like a 'sort by date'?

"It is better to have a friendship based on business, than a business based on friendship." - Rockefeller. "Live fast, die hard. Leave a good looking body." - Navy SEAL
 

I see it now! :-)

Its just by the time you get to the actual posts, it's already gone. But thanks thats super helpful.

"It is better to have a friendship based on business, than a business based on friendship." - Rockefeller. "Live fast, die hard. Leave a good looking body." - Navy SEAL
 

Already see a difference. Man, I wish people could have seen this place 4 or 5 years ago. Night and day doesnt even do it justice.

If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses - Henry Ford
 
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thanks happy - yes, sometimes I have to look back at some old screenshots to remind myself that we've come a LONG way. Doesn't mean we can't keep getting better :-)

We've been doing weekly user testing which has helped us see blind spots and obvious user issues that we're blind to since we work on the site 50+hrs/week.

The WSO Company Database has undergone a lot of changes, but there is a lot more coming in terms of typography, font, improving the video library, submissions forms, menus, etc etc... nothing dramatic (yet), just small incremental improvements every week is our goal.

stay tuned!

 

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