Ok this is feedback re the marketplace, my sales on xstreetsl used to be like once a day, since the changes LL wrought, moving xstreetsl into the marketplace and then removing magic boxes and implementing their new system, all these disturbances now mean, I seem to get no sales per day, that is my experience of the impact of LL’s decisions, obviously SL avatar numbers have changed allot since then, so it cant all be lain at your door re the changes you have implemented, but the effect is dramatic, Now this bothers me, but a much more damaging problem is the lack of relevance of search results in the Marketplace ?
for example – humour me –
do a search for banana or any fruit orange etc, fruit happen to be the things that I sell.
The fact that the specific individual banana objects, barely turn up on the first pages and instead island sets and clothing coming up instead shows how awful the search results formula is, even when set to filter by relevance, how are people supposed to find relevant objects except by wading through multiple pages of mainly unrelated stuff, I know this cant be helping sales for anybody’s objects. The results it returns on page when I search for banana ? > a stripy b&w shirt top is coming up, well before a banana fruit of any description let alone the banana i am selling, This needs resolving, I certainly also find it ridiculous the top level categories and a “food” category does not even figure in that? you’ve buried it under Recreation and entertainment ? why ? who would think to look there ? The net gist of my arguments is that marketplaces search results are effectively making it look like there are very few such bananas on second life or any relevant objects, ie the quality of the search results are really very poor when it comes to being relevant to the search criteria used ? LL really need to work on this. This could be resolved by a not relevant to search results button ? which Marketplace learned form or ranking single keywords higher than overuse of unrelated multiple keywords ? whichever way at the moment the search results in marketplace arent very good, and im not just saying this for my own benefit im saying it for the benefit of the search results in general.