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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 4114195, member: 19463"]As a user, I see the friendliness largely a matter of how the system handles variations. Will a search for SEP SEV return a listing as SEPS EV (many coins have this split)? Google tries hard to guess what we were thinking. The CNG search must be spelled correctly. Dalmatius is a good point here. There are also many later Roman coins with H looking A's so searches have to be aware of things that might impede connection between input and users. </p><p><br /></p><p>I find the comments section on acsearch interesting because they allow a seller to turn off comments for their sales. I started leaving a few comments when I first discovered the capability but stopped when I saw so few people using it. Perhaps some are turned off by the subscription system. A comment:</p><p><a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=5650131" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=5650131" rel="nofollow">https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=5650131</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Needs one:</p><p><a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=2733653" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=2733653" rel="nofollow">https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=2733653</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Databases are no better than their data. Users of sales compilation sites need to realize that the data as supplied by sellers might need editing. I see this as too big a job to expect the site owner to do alone.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 4114195, member: 19463"]As a user, I see the friendliness largely a matter of how the system handles variations. Will a search for SEP SEV return a listing as SEPS EV (many coins have this split)? Google tries hard to guess what we were thinking. The CNG search must be spelled correctly. Dalmatius is a good point here. There are also many later Roman coins with H looking A's so searches have to be aware of things that might impede connection between input and users. I find the comments section on acsearch interesting because they allow a seller to turn off comments for their sales. I started leaving a few comments when I first discovered the capability but stopped when I saw so few people using it. Perhaps some are turned off by the subscription system. A comment: [URL]https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=5650131[/URL] Needs one: [URL]https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=2733653[/URL] Databases are no better than their data. Users of sales compilation sites need to realize that the data as supplied by sellers might need editing. I see this as too big a job to expect the site owner to do alone.[/QUOTE]
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