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Old 19 October 2007, 10:23 PM
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What the hell happened to Autotrader's search?

It's gone all Ajaxified but its crap, its almost impossible to search for jap cars, you can only search on what IT decides. I hope they realise it's a shambles and bring back the old search functionality.

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Old 19 October 2007, 11:33 PM
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Agreed, I don't like it. Nice to have the smoothness of the "AJAX experience" when it doesn't impact negatively upon the functionality as this does IMHO.
Old 20 October 2007, 02:27 PM
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quite right - so much for new and improved features - bring back the old system!

I've just bought a new scoob so i won't be changing for a while - at least i don't need to rely on it for a while
Old 20 October 2007, 04:55 PM
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You can use it just as you used the old search facility? Just pick 'Subaru' and don't bother choosing the model (if you don't want to). Then click on 'more search options' and enter whatever you want in the 'keywords' box.
Old 20 October 2007, 05:40 PM
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Its pissing me off because you cant just hit a letter key on a combo box, it instantly changes the selection, say I drop down the box and want to go to Subaru so I press 'S', fooking thing just selects the first S...

However I do like that they have added some more years to the "age search"
Old 20 October 2007, 05:49 PM
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Just type in what you want in that little box on the right says "keywords"

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Old 20 October 2007, 07:58 PM
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Well I think its better Gives you an idea how many of each car there is and you can narrow it right down to exact preferences.
Old 20 October 2007, 08:11 PM
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I agree with rossyboy ,i too think its better.!!
Old 20 October 2007, 11:02 PM
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It's too slow, sometimes you just want to get straight to the results with a couple of clicks. The old one did this. They should perhaps have retained a simple quick search option to keep everyone happy.
Old 21 October 2007, 10:28 PM
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The new search looks nice but is awful to use. I found that the search on top marques is still the old style though




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