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Message:: [QUOTE="SuperDave, post: 2444702, member: 1892"]It really is an *excellent* effort, John. Nicely granular and broadband-fast. You ought to think about licensing a template. For the record, guys, by definition a text search is never going to be as accurate as a drill-down search by clicking the available options to narrow the search. If they make the text search wide enough to include descriptions as well as titles, you'll get lot numbers searching for dates and unrelated mentions when searching for specifics like "DDO" and such. Better - like Heritage - to have a bazillion different selections to narrow your search down. Earlier this morning, I wanted to see every_single_coin Heritage ever offered in AU58, and it was only a matter of four or five clicks and a final text search (once I narrowed down the results enough to make text searching reasonable) to get there. Further, text searching makes the server search the entire database at once, slowing your result and increasing the load on the server. The PCGS Auction Results site has no such granularity, which is why I'll always only use that in conjunction with Heritage or other sites. DLRC has that nailed now, as well. I suspect they've got a bit of computational horsepower behind it - that's the usual first lesson someone learns when setting up a powerful database. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]