Wine Companion Search Engine

[dave vino]

Was this written by the same people who did the Langtons website? Seriously it is woeful how it finds things. (or rather doesn't). It used to be ok but something has changed and it is hopeless now. You start typing 'Moss' and it brings up the stuff in the drop down, can't see the CabSav so you then you continue with 'Wood' and it starts then searching for Brookwood and Unwooded wines with no reference to Moss any more, it's like it only evaluates the last word typed.

Then the results will give you 7500 wines of which the ones you want are about the first 10-15, but if you try to sort by vintage or rating it then sorts all the 7500 wines it found which bear no resemblance to the original search

[ticklenow1]

I've noticed this as well. It's only started happening very recently too. Bit of a pain to be honest.

Cheers
Ian

[Chuck]

Ditto above. I rely on this site as a good reference but now find it very difficult to narrow the search. Now it seems to be searching "and" when entering 2 words in the search widening the search rather than narrowing it. Not happy Jan! Something is really broken.

Carl

[Ddavew]

i remember i have to type in almost the full name of the wine in the search to show the actual wine that is named on his website,i didn't see any difference between his old website and this new one. and if you might already notice, it is the same as the virtual cellar search function, its useless!

[Chuck]

Try searching by winery and then drill down to the wines. Shouldn't be like this though.

Carl

[qwertt]

Try searching by winery and then drill down to the wines. Shouldn't be like this though.

Carl

Agreed! It used to be terrific, so why is it suddenly necessary for a workaround - it's not as if it is a free site!

[daver6]

Noticed the same problem too. Started about a month or two ago.

[Polymer]

Probably done by the same people that did their iPhone app...

[Gavin Trott]

Probably done by the same people that did their iPhone app...

agreed.

Terrible, never even use it any more!

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[daver6]

So far my contacting them via Twitter has done nothing.

[Chuck]

All fixed now. Business as usual.

Carl

[Dennisr]

I have messages James H directly about the problem for the last two months. I offered to him contact with some decent software programmers who actually know what they are doing. I can only imagine where he found these no hopers who destroyed the previous search engine. I will now and go to see if it works as intended.