[nbuck]

I love Macworld.com, and I use it to keep up with all Apple news. I love the writing and topics. However, the one thing that bugs me is that your Search function. It's annoying! It offers no help, and often comes up with irrelevant results. Maybe I've been spoiled by Google and it's "smart" results, but I would think that a site that embraces the Apple way of simplicity and intuitiveness would have a search system that reflected that.

I was trying to find an article about how to share one iPad among a family (with different Apple IDs). I know you have written articles about the subject. I'm not an expert in Boolean searches, but the results that came up weren't close! This has happened many times before.

Please fix your Search!

[bastion]

nbuck, on 26 December 2012 - 06:10 AM, said:

I love Macworld.com, and I use it to keep up with all Apple news. I love the writing and topics. However, the one thing that bugs me is that your Search function. It's annoying! It offers no help, and often comes up with irrelevant results. Maybe I've been spoiled by Google and it's "smart" results, but I would think that a site that embraces the Apple way of simplicity and intuitiveness would have a search system that reflected that.

I was trying to find an article about how to share one iPad among a family (with different Apple IDs). I know you have written articles about the subject. I'm not an expert in Boolean searches, but the results that came up weren't close! This has happened many times before.

Please fix your Search!

I have, for some time, used Google with a "site:macworld.com" clause as my tool of choice for searching here for just this reason. I found it frankly bizarre when the site overhaul was rolled out that improved searching was touted as a benefit; as far as I can tell there's been no change.

[smax013]

bastion, on 26 December 2012 - 06:58 AM, said:

I have, for some time, used Google with a "site:macworld.com" clause as my tool of choice for searching here for just this reason. I found it frankly bizarre when the site overhaul was rolled out that improved searching was touted as a benefit; as far as I can tell there's been no change.

Seconded. I do this as well. The Macworld (and PCWorld) site's search function sucks.