Monday, August 17, 2009

Tag your it

I updated TikiWade this morning with a very important update. The new addition that you will see when creating a new listing is an entry field for "keywords". These are terms that someone might use to search through TikiWade to find your listing. These are admittedly not used at the moment, but will be very soon. This is just the first phase.

The next part will be when I change the search to actually use these tags to find listings on TikiWade. So please start adding keywords using a semicolon (;) to separate the words or phrases out. An example for a car might be "dodge:charger;sedan;4 door;silver". Adding the same word multiple times (i.e. dodge:Dodge:dOdGe) will not work, only one "dodge" will get entered and all searches are case insensitive anyway.

Some small underlying changes needed to occur to make this work. They should hopefully not have any impact on normal operations.

I also changed some of the queries for the ads to help speed them up, more to come on this real soon.

Thanks
Wade

Thanks

I want to thank everyone who came out to help put together meals at Feed My Starving Children in Eagan last Saturday. We had a great time and were able to be a part of putting together over 26,000 meals.

We were also able to give them a sizable donation thanks in part to you by creating new accounts and listings on TikiWade, all for free. I really love being able to be a part of this.

If you have other ideas of ways in which TikiWade can help please let me know.

Thanks
Wade