But not in a weird way, honest!

Every time you do a search on EdinburghMenus.com, it gets recorded. Don’t worry, we don’t store any personal details about you — we couldn’t, even if we wanted to. We just record what your search terms were, what time you performed the search and how many results that search gave you.

We are constantly checking this data to make sure that our search engine is producing the best results. Searches that result in no hits get flagged up to us immediately — perhaps a new business has opened up in town that we haven’t noticed and hasn’t been added to the site yet. That’s why you might search for something on the site and not find any results only to discover that the business you wanted gets added 10 minutes later — it’s no coincidence!

Sometimes people search for something with a common mispelling and get no results and think that the business wasn’t listed. Our search engine does make some allowances for the poor spellers out there, but does trip up sometimes. For example, we spotted that somebody searched for “The Sheeps Heid” and got no results. Of course, “The Sheep Heid” is in the database, so we tweaked the search engine to make sure that it shows up for such an occurance in the future.

So keep on searching, and if you don’t get the results you expect, try again in half an hour!

This entry was posted on Thursday, October 11th, 2007 and is filed under development.
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