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crisp
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why do so few websites (FM, FAP etc) let you search on keywords?
only primelocation seem to faciliate it, but its location searching is tendious.
any ideas?
only primelocation seem to faciliate it, but its location searching is tendious.
any ideas?
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thats no excuse0
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I was thinking this same thing this morning. PL great as can put in "barn conversion" or similar. RM only allows you to specify detached, new etc.
It's not bloody rocket science!!!0 -
I was thinking this same thing this morning. PL great as can put in "barn conversion" or similar. RM only allows you to specify detached, new etc.
It's not bloody rocket science!!!
Yeah but unless these sites are aware of what consumers want, via suggestions etc, they won't just copy how another website works. Otherwise, then all the house searching websites would look the same and those companies wouldn't make any money cos they would have no advantages over their competitors.
I remember about 1 year ago I made a suggestion to RM, and since then it has been implemented!0 -
purplebuzz wrote: »Yeah but unless these sites are aware of what consumers want, via suggestions etc, they won't just copy how another website works. Otherwise, then all the house searching websites would look the same and those companies wouldn't make any money cos they would have no advantages over their competitors.
I remember about 1 year ago I made a suggestion to RM, and since then it has been implemented!
I know what your saying but free text search seems a "no brainer" to me!0 -
I'd like the ability to not show some preferences - like shared ownership and mobile homes.0
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Possibly because searching for free text is 'resource-intensive' - i.e. takes more processing power, and puts more load on their servers... maybe
However, another way of achieving the same is to use the google 'site' parameter.
If you want to search for a specific word set within a specific website, such as Rightmove, then ;
"site:https://www.rightmove.co.uk detached garage swansea" should bring a focused set of results with detached properties with a garage in Swansea ..... try it and see how you get on.
Google also works with subtractive parameters as well - so if you put a minus sign in front of a rejected term - i.e. " -shared" or " -mobile" it will suppress any pages which include shared or mobile homes....0
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