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This one closes on April 1st, but it's not an April fool.
Over the coming weeks we are upgrading our search engine. It's having a triple destructurisation operation and invisible lurking terms enhancements.
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.
Closes 9 am on April 1st, 2001.
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.
Over the coming weeks we are upgrading our search engine. It's having a triple destructurisation operation and invisible lurking terms enhancements.
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.
Closes 9 am on April 1st, 2001.
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.
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SNIPER wrote:
> It's harder than you think.....com's are slumping out of buisness but you are not the original kind of .com like Freeloader.
As usual Sniper I really don't know what you are referring to by "harder than you think". To do what?
We were the original kind of dot com, they all came along afterwards.
Special Reserve went onto the internet in 1995. We were the first games retailer in the UK to open an online shop.
Yes stupid of us not to register our name, but those were the days of very high cost domains and we decided (at the time) to change ours to "Reserve".
That's why we use "special.reserve.co.uk.
> It's harder than you think.....com's are slumping out of buisness but you are not the original kind of .com like Freeloader.
As usual Sniper I really don't know what you are referring to by "harder than you think". To do what?
We were the original kind of dot com, they all came along afterwards.
Special Reserve went onto the internet in 1995. We were the first games retailer in the UK to open an online shop.
Yes stupid of us not to register our name, but those were the days of very high cost domains and we decided (at the time) to change ours to "Reserve".
That's why we use "special.reserve.co.uk.
Really they don't rarely search you unless it is a mistake, or it is just listed there on purpose.
It's harder than you think.....com's are slumping out of buisness but you are not the original kind of .com like Freeloader.
Tony wrote:
> SNIPER wrote:
> Nobody types in that.
Actually
> "SpecialReserve" does get quite a lot of searches. This
> is because we don't have SpecialReserve.com or
> SpecialReserve.co.uk.
The .co.uk was registered by Robert Dudani
> of Computer Exchange (Cex) to stop us from getting the name. He set
> up a dummy site called World of Port at the Special Reserve address
> and tagged it with a traffic counter to record how many of our
> customers were going there looking for us.
The .com was
> originally a wine site in the USA but now it's not doing anything.
**knows all this after being lost for a bit looking for the Special Reserve Mail Order site for the first time**
> SNIPER wrote:
> Nobody types in that.
Actually
> "SpecialReserve" does get quite a lot of searches. This
> is because we don't have SpecialReserve.com or
> SpecialReserve.co.uk.
The .co.uk was registered by Robert Dudani
> of Computer Exchange (Cex) to stop us from getting the name. He set
> up a dummy site called World of Port at the Special Reserve address
> and tagged it with a traffic counter to record how many of our
> customers were going there looking for us.
The .com was
> originally a wine site in the USA but now it's not doing anything.
**knows all this after being lost for a bit looking for the Special Reserve Mail Order site for the first time**
SNIPER wrote:
> Nobody types in that.
Actually "SpecialReserve" does get quite a lot of searches. This is because we don't have SpecialReserve.com or SpecialReserve.co.uk.
The .co.uk was registered by Robert Dudani of Computer Exchange (Cex) to stop us from getting the name. He set up a dummy site called World of Port at the Special Reserve address and tagged it with a traffic counter to record how many of our customers were going there looking for us.
The .com was originally a wine site in the USA but now it's not doing anything.
> Nobody types in that.
Actually "SpecialReserve" does get quite a lot of searches. This is because we don't have SpecialReserve.com or SpecialReserve.co.uk.
The .co.uk was registered by Robert Dudani of Computer Exchange (Cex) to stop us from getting the name. He set up a dummy site called World of Port at the Special Reserve address and tagged it with a traffic counter to record how many of our customers were going there looking for us.
The .com was originally a wine site in the USA but now it's not doing anything.
by the way NIS. Thi sis a joke, don't take it seriously
I've just found a MAJOR bug in this site!
There is a poster on the forums called Nintendo is Simon!!!! Surely he should be removed and charged on 2376 counts of being stupid, 5 counts of not getting one liners and 19000002993939336565 counts of blasphemy.
There is a poster on the forums called Nintendo is Simon!!!! Surely he should be removed and charged on 2376 counts of being stupid, 5 counts of not getting one liners and 19000002993939336565 counts of blasphemy.
Is is not bug reporting Simon and Game that is all in capitals that's why it won't work.
I think that Tonyh is just on about the actual products and services, like Gameaday and Playstation 2 games etc, I don't think that people need to be able to get to one of Tony's post that quickly!...Do they?
Very few un-common product names register. MS INTELLIMOUSE etc, and some others don't work...
I think you need to pack as much product info in to those little grey box things as you can! Then the thing would be able to fing a needle in a haystack. BUT an advanced search would be better cause you could specify...
The Game
Very few un-common product names register. MS INTELLIMOUSE etc, and some others don't work...
I think you need to pack as much product info in to those little grey box things as you can! Then the thing would be able to fing a needle in a haystack. BUT an advanced search would be better cause you could specify...
The Game
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