- Demerzel
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- Senior Heroic Member
For the amount of information that's on this website, there should definitely be a powerful and easy-to-use search tools that we can employ to dig through all of the meaningless or unrelated stuff and find the information we're looking for, I agree. Last I checked, bungie.net was around 1,600th place in the "most traffic of any website" category, with about 1,700 sites linking in, so that's a pretty lot of people that are coming here to participate in and find out more about our community - and all those people will want to be able to find what they want to see quickly and easily.
Our current search feature is notorious around these parts for not really being able to do that as effectively as the search features on other websites. Granted, it did improve with the latest mini-update a few weeks ago, but it still doesn't really nail down the essence of what a good search feature will do: it doesn't have the ability to narrow your results down to just a few items, which would be an important need for a place with so much information.
It isn't totally archaic or out-of-date, because you can usually minimize the amount of sifting around that you have to do, but I agree that there is room for improvement.
I'm sure that the web team realizes how important it is for people to be able to find what they need effeciently, but maybe there isn't really time now to do it now, or they're thinking of ways to make it the easiest and most powerful tool possible. Or maybe it simply isn't that far up on the "to do" list.