The all new Carzone search engine

bbability

Please bring back the old one it was much better. What the hell is the new search engine about???

An interesting note also to add... I didn't realise that carzone have now stopped dealers from the north advertising. Got a mail from a dealer across the border in the past few days who was very irrate that he was not allowed advertise on carzone anymore. Woudn't think that this was the best move Carzone ever made considering the car market at the moment.

Tipsy Mac

Yes the new site is rubbish, I can see a massive gap in the market for a better one.

I'd say the Northies were dropped by as a result of some SIMI "representation" to AutoTrader.

thebman

Just checked it out. I think it looks class and is very easy to use. Don't see the issue with it.

I have used the old one and I think this one will be easier for people new to the site.

Max_Damage

As posted by someone in the classic cars forum before, this website here still uses the old search engine:

http://www.driving.ie/contentv3/

Tipsy Mac

brim4brim wrote: »

I think this one will be easier for people new to the site.

That's just it, if they want to cater for such slow people they should setup a seperate site where such people can train their skills, maybe they could call it carzonenewbie.ie and leave the old version for people actually looking for cars they want to buy. I would say I could find a particular model of car at a particular price range and engine size within 10 seconds on the old site, the new one would take close to a minute to bring anything close, rubbish site.

It seems to be that carzone was purchased by AutoTrader to simply sink it.

galwaytt

'sfunny, I was looking on another site today, and thought it atrocious. Then, in the small print on the bottom, it said 'powered by carzone'.

Oh dear, so that's what's wrong with it then !:D

kikel

Didn't like it at first, but i have got use to it. Having said that i can't see my Dad at 70 years of age adapting to the new site. I think the main thing is not to "update results" until all criteria are selected.

ninty9er

It appears the site has gone tits up.

From 60k plus cars for sale yesterday, there's less than 30k cars for sale today and a lot of photos are not working.

markos79

the new site is a total disaster i dont have the patients to use it any more they need to sort this out quick smart.

and as they have put the price up to advertise your car people are just gonna go elsewhere as it takes to long to search for one particular car the old site was 10 times better.

Holsten

Go back to the old version and problem solved.

Gone from checking carzone many times a day to not visting at all.

The site is a piece of **** at the min.

jus

bring back the old carzone with the old prices...

Graham_B18C

ninty9er wrote: »

It appears the site has gone tits up.

From 60k plus cars for sale yesterday, there's less than 30k cars for sale today and a lot of photos are not working.

I checked just there and there was something like 59k for sale

Yakult

Holsten wrote: »

Go back to the old version and problem solved.

Gone from checking carzone many times a day to not visting at all.

The site is a piece of **** at the min.

Exactly, I used to browse everyday. Now I dont even go on it. It sucks.:mad:

crosstownk

kikel wrote: »

Didn't like it at first, but i have got use to it.

Yep - I'm starting to get used to it. But I think the previous version was a lot more straight forward.

Hal1

It was a bold move, they should have an option on their main page to 'switch back to the old style site'. I wonder how many of the design ideas were carzones and how many where the web designer's.

Lex Luthor

http://www.driving.ie/usedcars/

jonathan11

getting these errors today....

murphym7

Last version way easier to use, new version is rubbish.

mcauley

The basic search option is still available for use and is still on the front page...

see here:

So the basic option is still there guys, it does however still show the new results listing and the new listing format.....

If it's not broke, why fix it eh??

thebman

My guess is because it looks cooler. I never really liked the old search TBH. It got you there in the end but it wasn't nice to look at and the only real advantage of it over this one is you could navigate it using the keyboard.

_Kaiser_

brim4brim wrote: »

My guess is because it looks cooler. I never really liked the old search TBH. It got you there in the end but it wasn't nice to look at and the only real advantage of it over this one is you could navigate it using the keyboard.

But is the point of a search engine - which is what it is after all - not to get you to the results as quickly and easily as possible, not just look pretty and especially not at the expense of functionality.

+1 for bringing back the old layout. I don't bother visiting the site now either..

fletch

mcauley wrote: »

The basic search option is still available for use and is still on the front page...

Yeh but it's the advanced search that everyone is missing

mcauley

fletch wrote: »

Yeh but it's the advanced search that everyone is missing

Nobody has really mentioned the advanced search just yet. . . at least thats the impression I got....

I agree though that the new search has become needlessly complicated (in comparison to the previous version). Its still easy to use however and the basic search is still a quick and simple option.

AsphaltRisin'

i hate it, i find that it's very unpleasant to use and the brice bands annoy the hell out of me. it's all 2999 to 7999 etc. like there could be an ideal car there but because it has a price of 8000 instead of 7999 you wont see it