[Warwick]

Originally Posted by lcg

I've been thinking more on the regular search script (for my cart), that has no output nor images displayed while customer is typing the query, X-Cart search is pretty sad, and can cost you sales. For now I've been using another search script (cgi) with standard text results (most customers are used to this type of search result anyways, so it's familiar to them) -it's working for me so far till I move to an x-cart search script that'll show thumbs on results, but I'm not too keen on having images or text while someone is typing their query, if they don't find it in the list, does that rule out their search altogether? (in customer's view)

I think that images are distracting attention and give a wrong impression of what's available (even when 'show more results' is displayed underneath the first 10 results), especially with shops with thousands of products; it's like Google showing the first 10 results with images; imagine what for impact this'll have for results 11 - 9999 ...

I see/saw potential in the instant text result but you made me aware of the following:

Originally Posted by lcg

... and from what I see, the script that you mentioned (text output) doesn't even seem to search through product description, so that's something else to think about and how a customer might interpret that and maybe again do away with search altogether.

Good point there, didn't think of that one.

Meanwhile I seriously have doubts about using this at all; I can't see -besides having a nice gadget- how customers and the commercial succes of your shop are served by either solution? Let's be realistic it is a search engine goodie which was -if I'm not mistaking- initiated by Google; not be be confused with a shop's commercial search functionality. We're not after presenting customers information in a slick way but to sell goodies, right?

Originally Posted by lcg

Thanks for xcartmods.co.uk link, hadn't been there in a few days , I can see they added some missing freebies, I can vouch for FAQ's, awesome script, he's got some of the best freebies around (and a no nonsense direct d/l link to them) and even helped with some questions on his freebies.

PhilJ is a cool cat! Kudos!