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The winner is (drum roll...) er-no! Thanks once again for all your valuble work.

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We've made lots of changes to our Product Search facility.

As most of you will remember we had a very successful Gameaday competition on this a few months ago which was won by Meka_Dragon.

Now that most of the suggested changes have been implimented I would like us to do it again.


This one closes on June 7th

The prize will go to the person who finds the MOST VALID PROBLEMS across our WHOLE PRODUCT RANGE in the SEARCH FACILITY.

If you think you should be able to search on "Horror Movies", but nothing comes up, then add it to your list.

If you think people will mis-spell gran turismo, then add that too - but test it first.

Use short lists if possible but multiple posts will count together. i.e. all your posts on this subject will add up and count towards the prize.

I recommend you read the details of our searching process which you can click to from a link at Site Map. Basically we use the start of a word, so a search on "thunder" will find "thunderball". If several words are combined it must find all.

Using the search engine (all categories) these games were not found( i spelt them as they are here):

Banjo Kazooie
Star wars : rogue spear.

The search engine didn't find my search for Metal detector. And i was sure i seen a picture of one in my SR mag.

It didn't find my search for interactive puppy!

One other thing i forgot to tell you all my searches are done under - all catagories.

you are trying too damn hard!

I think there should be a thing were you could search for games rated at certain ages for certain platforms e.g

rated <15 (n64)- game rated under 15 for N64

rated >15 (n64)- game rated 15 or over for N64

Simple really!

My 4th problem!

I think quite alot of people are going to spell cartridges wrong. As when i done a search for Ink Cartridges i spelt it like this : ink cartiges(noyhing found) - wich is the way most people would spell it. You should do something about this.

All my searches have been done in the product search box.

Problem: I searched for driver, i got lots of results inculding driver 2, but one thing struck me is that it found driver (1) for the playstation(been out for longer) but not for the P.C.

Another problem!

If you search for Zelda : Ocarina of time - nothing is found

And even if you just search for Ocarina of time - nothing is found.

I found my first problem today while searching for zelda 2.

I found out that the you have to have spaces in the right place e.g

Zelda 2:Majoras Mask - not found

Zelda 2 : Majoras Mask - found

turbonutter wrote:
> I've already said this

I dunno man...

It cant be a prize winner...

Its just something I'd like changed

:)