As a Geek, I see power tools just a little different than most. I'm excited about the details and which ones have what makes sense instead of just which one is best for the ego. Sure, I like powerful. But I also appreciate it when someone just gets the balance of power and usability right.

Thursday, March 09, 2006

Request for feedback

I spent much of today working on the results pages for our internal search engine on ToolBarn.com to make the results easier to look at and pick out the right one. Now, I'm looking for some feedback from you, our valued site visitor.



Example 1: Search for dewalt 18v drill

The above image is our old search results. You can see that only the product had an image, the rest were just textual listings like google would show. Below, we added thumbnails to many of the different pages, allowing you to see which pages are brand specific rather easily. Any "Category" level page has a thumbnail of the page that is linked to. Does that help you as much as it helped me to pick out the results I wanted?





Example 2 : Search for 2610321608

Above is the old results. Again, just textual for most of the results. Below has the thumbnail of what the schematic pages look like. Does this help at all?





Ok, so now that you've seen some of the additions I made (this is a lot of thumbnails to generate, by the way), what suggestions do you have to make our search results easier to spot what you're looking for? Most sites don't give their visitors the opportunity to give input like this, so this is your chance to make a difference. Crazy ideas accepted as well as really good ones. Just leave a comment or email me and I'll do what I can to include all the good ones on our site.

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