We did another round of various updates, but this one deserves a special hilight.
Partial search: It’s easy to miss, but it’s a big, big deal and was quite tricky to get working right with the amount of data we’ve got. Now you can search for just parts of restaurant names and descriptions. We’re talking about this field, found at the top right of every page:
Previously if you were looking for, say “Villetta” you would have to type:
Now you can just type a part of the word, like so:
You’ll find both “Villetta” and “Villa Maria” that way. Exciting, no? You can also type “ital” if you’re looking for “italian” or “italy”. It’ll find both. Powerful stuff.
Hot pro tip: Type the name of a city into the search field to go directly there!
Oh thank God! This is such a great improvement
I’ve been hoping that you’d fix this. Thanks! Keep up the awesome work!
Hooray! We’re kind of delighted someone noticed.
That’s a great improvement. I tested it on a few restaurant names and it works like a charm. Could there be a sentence or two on eat.fi about how to use search effectively?
Good idea, will do!
You’re saying partial text search is not easy to implement? With the amount of data you have? Let me laugh. It’s very easy, especially with the amount of data you have. Maybe you just lack skills, like you do on user interface design, usability etc?
Implementing it is easy, but it was delayed by deciding what to include. What we’re saying is that we didn’t have it, now we do, hooray!