Vast.com, take me to your motorcycles
Let’s face it: The interfaces of two of the largest classified aggregator sites, Vast.com and Oodle.com, are nearly identical. On both sites, “Cars” is the first category, and on Vast, it’s selected as the default category for searches.
The problem is that a search from the Vast.com home page returns no vehicle search results for motorcycle queries. All motorcycles are in the “Merchandise” category along with boats. Oodle has not made the same mistake. In fact, Oodle’s home page will take any query and find the proper product category to query.
I know very well what Vast.com is and what it can offer me as a consumer because I’m a search junkie & computer programmer, too. The typical shopper, on the other hand, is just looking for that box where he can type what he wants, and if he’s at Vast.com, he’s not finding that motorcycle.
[…] Unless you are searching for a motorcycle. To be fair, the search was broken before the redesign. I wrote about it in October. The category structure prevents motorcycles from being returned in default search […]