Search Requests

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• 14 Comments sorted by Votes Date Added
• Mark Rosenberg Staff

  April 2016 0 Likes Vote Down

  1) I'm curious to know how many people want this feature / what the intention is. Primarily because it takes more resources (hence money) to do this. I'm not opposed to it - just want to understand the demand better.
  
  2) I believe you can already do this - we're just not auto-populating this information yet - but we're working on it.
  
  3) Planning on getting to this in the future, but haven't made it a priority yet because of the more extensive categories / sub-categories and filters we have.
  
  4) Will look into this further.
  
  5) Definitely looking to include ranges in the future.
• Doug Noernberg

  April 2016 edited April 2016 0 Likes Vote Down

  I thought number 1 was used when the description listed more info than could be fit in the title. Such as stamps engraved by Slania... or if someone uses keywords in their listings, as I do. For instance, if a stamp has elephants depicted, but is not the central topic of the stamp (so it may not be noted in the description), then I would note "elephant" in my description keywords. I would also use the topicals, but that only goes to animals::mammals, so cats, dogs, whales, chinchillas, ferrets, etc. would all have to be sorted through to find the elephants. I guess another way around this would be to create another field for each listing called "tags" or "keywords", then you can search just those and not the whole listing description. You might also be able to use it for that tag cloud I mentioned above.
• Mark Rosenberg Staff

  April 2016 0 Likes Vote Down

  Tags, particularly for search, is currently on the list - but it's not a top priority at the moment. However, it would provide many different applications (including search, consignors, etc.)
• Thomas Keesling

  April 2016 1 Likes Vote Down

  With very few exceptions, I listed stamps at BS with two categories in an effort to address what Doug is presenting as a search limitation. I've had no feedback and have no idea if that procedure was helpful or not. I have also mentioned specific topics such as elephants in my descriptions, hoping that it helps collectors more easily find the stamps they're looking for. Again, no feedback. So I don't know how useful that extra effort has been.
  
  If nothing else, being able to search descriptions would help overcome some of the shortcomings of the topics list. E.g., explorers generally and names such as Columbus, Cook, Prince Henry, da Gama, Caillie and others that show up frequently on the stamps I collected.
  
  A related question: Given the longer titles we have available at HS, and the ability to separate out the country, cat #, year, etc., what information is appropriate for the title? If I'm taking full advantage in new listings of those separate pieces of data, what is the best way to use the title? at present, in new listings, I'm duplicating all of the info in those now separate pieces of data. What's the value in doing that? Since I'm not a buyer and not using the search tool, I'm in the dark here. What's the best way to maximize the value of the title given the new environment we've got? Does a change in the way we use the title begin to address some of the issues Doug raises?
• Doug Noernberg

  December 2016 7 Likes Vote Down

  Bump - requesting those who want to see #1 implemented to "vote" for it by hitting the thumbs-up button (having option to search Titles & Descriptions).
• Robert Parkin

  December 2016 0 Likes Vote Down

  I also used keywords on bidStart to create seller defined categories which is another feature we seem to have lost from bidStart.
• Phil Atarium

  December 2016 1 Likes Vote Down

  Indeed, Bob. I used those quite a bit to create specialized searches for sub-categories of Japanese items.
• JJames Tinkoff

  December 2016 0 Likes Vote Down

  I have a problem with using the search feature as:
  1. Select Category, - US
  2. select Sub cat - US
  3. Select type - General Issue
  4. Select - Mint Never Hinghed
  5. Select format - single
  6. Then select - sort by country / cat
  results include all sorts of "junk" that I would not expect - and the outpput is not ordered
  
  
• Robert Parkin

  December 2016 edited December 2016 0 Likes Vote Down

  I'm sure this has been mentioned before but it looks like keywords in the Titles are not even searchable. I have a few items with the term Hawaii in the title (US 647-648 and US 4287 & US 2080). None of these come up when I search by Hawaii, only the 4 stamps that I have categorized as Hawaii come up.
  
  I guess I have to take that back... Although for some reason Hawaii does not return what I'm looking for, I tried to find all the Doris Gold Cachets and that search seemed to work.
• PPaul Molloy

  December 2016 0 Likes Vote Down

  I've had mixed results trying to search China 1880-1944, sorted by catalog #.
  
  https://www.hipstamp.com/category/china/85/?item_specifics_07_year_of_issue[from]=1880&item_specifics_07_year_of_issue[to]=1944&category_slug=china&country=2084&sort=catalog
  
  The wrong year date has populated a detail page field. Not an uncommon occurrence.
  https://www.hipstamp.com/listing/china-prc-78-mng-cv-030/606922
  GIGO
• PPaul Molloy

  December 2016 0 Likes Vote Down

  I am seeing 1897 as a year in many of the above search results when they are PRC. Coincidence.... or bug ...or?
• Samuel Kelly

  December 2016 0 Likes Vote Down

  Search Year and Country.
  example: 1997 Papua New Guinea
  If a seller does not have this info in the heading for a particular issue for 1997, madness.
  Sam
• PPaul Molloy

  December 2016 edited December 2016 0 Likes Vote Down

  Philatelic madness? We can't have that! Perhaps if a null was in that field if their was no entry, and then all items with no year of issue entry could be filtered out of searches that have date ranges....
• Samuel Kelly

  February 2017 0 Likes Vote Down

  Use the Title, it's the URL of your listing.
  Sam