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Old Jul 5, 2010, 04:11 PM
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This is a neat tool, and I played around with it some when you first asked about it, but didn't have time to code anything up.

I have reservations about tools that encourage "Untargeted" searches. To show you what I mean, I went to our advanced search page and looked at our most recent searches.

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albumtitles -- Charmed, Life • composer -- Idol,, Billy • sort by album titles
albumtitles -- Whiplash, Smile • composer -- Idol,, Billy • sort by album titles
albumtitles -- Rebel, Yell • composer -- Idol,, Billy • sort by album titles
albumtitles -- Discesa, AglInferi, Dun, Giovane, Amante • composer -- Bacio, Della, Medusa • sort by album titles
sort by album titles
albumtitles -- Waterfall • sort by album titles
albumtitles -- The, Marvel, World, Icarus • composer -- Icarus • sort by album titles
albumtitles -- Assume, Crash, Position • composer -- Konono, N°1 • sort by album titles
albumtitles -- ARA • composer -- LAmazon, Ram, Arkestra • sort by album titles
albumtitles -- Bird, Cherry, Grove • composer -- Anne, Lene, Hagglund • sort by album titles
In other words, the majority of the use of our Advanced Search feature now comes from people looking for licensed music, not VGM. We've got a good server, but we don't have the deep pockets that some of the big commercial sites have, and this is still load that is really a waste for us. Those searchers don't want VGM results, but it's easier to just blindly search everything.

Also, the recent search window is now completely useless.
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