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Search Box Hi Aled, I agree with Boracay.tel that the Search Box issues are very important. It is such a powerful tool on the web and mobile. Its issues cannot be ignored or delayed too long. Customers are more and more seeing the benefits of using it and are actually send us (in my case) feedback. Would greatly appreciate your support: Search Box with .tel and mobile, (.tel is set to search only within the domain): 1- The search results displays TELPAGES at the top which in turns takes you to the domain telpages.com. It defeats the purpose of setting it to search only under the domain name. 2- Also, if you run a search with the search box provided below. The result returns a list domain that are outside the domain name. 3- What are the chances to have the search box moved to the top of the domain when used on the mobile. Or at least have an option to enable it either at the top of bottom. As always, thank you for your prompt reply. Thanks |
IMO, for mobile use, both where the search box appears and how the search results are displayed must be controllable options that the tel owner can set via the CTH. The interaction of tel visitors on mobile is an important topic that needs combined discussion of all the stakeholders. Mark |
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Mark is quite right, I have a .tel set up in a particular way that the search box and where it appears on a mobile phone is of prime importance. So much so that the only way I can be sure it appears where I want it would be to use custom search and build a .mobi. - now, nobody wants that do they. Point made I hope.[/size] |
All, thanks for raising this. Making the position of the search box on the mobile proxy optional to be at the top or the bottom is certainly something we are looking at. |
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Thanks Aled. With all the different mobile platforms, and the rapid changes in them, I can but only imagine what a nightmare it must be.[/size] |
Aled and Telnic, We would like to take this opportunity to reiterate the importance of the search box either on the web or smartphone. It is a great tool. Clients love it specially when it is well combined with keywords. Made optional is certainly a great plus. We would like to ask another improvement ( if possible). Is it possible to have the search box actually searching across several .tel domains at the same time? For example: Talfen.tel. If i am looking for hair dresser and type it in the search box at the root (Talfen.tel), the result returns nothing. Today's Options: This.tel and All .tel Suggestion: This .tel, These .tel and All .Tel Many thanks, |
tel4rent - this is actually something that we are already investigating as we appreciate the value it can bring to directory builders who are basing their directories across several .tels. There arre obvious complications involved as the owner would need to specify exactly which .tels should be grouped together in this way (rather than it automatically including all in a specific CTH account), but it's definitely something we are looking at. |
Aled, Thank you very much for your quick reply. Is it something we could expect in the new CTH release? regards, |
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Aled it is quite easy at name.com and I'm sure other registrars as well to group our .tels into different CTH accounts. Are you saying that if we did we could have a search box for an account very easily and quickly?[/size] |
I think also is very important to can create a usuary account, is like I have a administrator user, and I can create users account for the subdomains. So the administrator of one domain, will be possible to create one user per subdomain. |
tel4rent, no, it won't be in the new CTH when that is released. No, I just mean that it's not that simple for us when we are looking at it. We need to consider users who are with Registrars that do not allow new accounts to be created and even possibly users who have .tels that they wish to group with different registrars. |
Aled, In an ideal world, a search of TelPages from a .tel, which produced multiple results, would display results in the same template and colour scheme as the .tel from which the search was generated, not the current TelPages view. This would create a better impression of inherent, integrated utility in .tel domains, rather than showing them as appendages to the search function, or vice versa. Would that be possible? |
Hello Roy, Are you talking about results which also include other .tels and not just the one that has been searched? If so I don't think it would be that effective in bringing the unity you mean as any .tel then linked to would likely have a different colour scheme/design. |
Aled, I am sure that the telnic team is very busy but it is really crucial that the following be addressed within a specific time frame. Your feedback would be very appreciated. - Search box option (top or bottom); - Results page should not allow user to navigate outside the specific .tel (if that option is selected); - Possibility to search across multiple .tel domains. Many thanks |
Thats what I meant, Aled. I just thought it would give the impession that .tel domains have significant search functionality - within the .tel community, of course. At present, its apparent that a .tel is only a portal to a search engine e.g. my .tel uses the classic template and is coloured red - a search takes me to a grey TelPages, with a completely different style - this takes me to the object site which will probably (almost certainly) be different again. One might expect the object site to be different but, to move through three different styles is not attractive. It may even be confusing. Anyway, if it's not possible then that's the end of the matter. |
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this is a very serious "user experience" issue on mobiles. Henri, simply adding this to a wish list is not enough. Surely something could be done about this??? thank you. ps and I know this has been mentioned moons ago, the mobile result page looks nothing like the mobile site.[/size] |
Aled! One of my .tel domain is not being indexed on telpages. I have tried many different combinations / possibilities but no where to be found. Consequently, the local search box in the .tel domain is not returning any results although keywords are there. Urgent help is needed. Thank you for your support. |
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Can you advise on the domain name affected such that we can investigate further[/size] |
Hi there, Just sent you a PM. thanks |
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Aled, Justin, Henri? Weeks are turning into months on this issue. The mobile search results page needs to stay within the relevant .tel. It's a major bug. Please give some feedback.[/size] |
