At the moment, I currently have:
- Simple search
- Quick search
- Advanced search
I have tried all kinds of combinations to satisfy my members but I am finding it too difficult to keep everyone happy. The problem is that any field I add into one of the search options above must have an answer selected which makes the searching of members very complicated.
It is making the searches too specific, which means that each search returns less results because for the members to appear in someone's search results, they have to match up exactly with the requirements of the search option used.
It would be much simpler to have many parameters within one search option only where people can choose what they would like to search for. This would mean that any search parameters not selected would not affect the result.
For example, if you had the search parameters with the following options:
- Gender - Male/Female
- Hair colour - Brown/Blonde/Black/Auburn
- Orientation - Straight/Gay/Bisexual
- Eye colour - Brown/Blue/Green
and you wanted to search for a blonde female but you do not care about eye colour or sexual orientation, using the current search system there is no way of leaving the eye colour and orientation field blank. Therefore you are forced into making a choice for eye colour and orientation which makes your search too specific, thus returning less results.
Is there a way to include more fields in the search function but to leave the choice of which fields each member wants to base their search up to that individual?
I hope this makes sense.
