element14 Community
element14 Community
    Register Log In
  • Site
  • Search
  • Log In Register
  • About Us
    About the element14 Community
    About Us
    • Watt's Up?
  • Community Hub
    Community Hub
    • What's New on element14
    • Feedback and Support
    • Benefits of Membership
    • Personal Blogs
    • Members Area
    • Achievement Levels
  • Learn
    Learn
    • Ask an Expert
    • eBooks
    • element14 presents
    • Learning Center
    • Tech Spotlight
    • STEM Academy
    • Webinars, Training and Events
    • Learning Groups
  • Technologies
    Technologies
    • 3D Printing
    • FPGA
    • Industrial Automation
    • Internet of Things
    • Power & Energy
    • Sensors
    • Technology Groups
  • Challenges & Projects
    Challenges & Projects
    • Design Challenges
    • element14 presents Projects
    • Project14
    • Arduino Projects
    • Raspberry Pi Projects
    • Project Groups
  • Products
    Products
    • Arduino
    • Avnet & Tria Boards Community
    • Dev Tools
    • Manufacturers
    • Multicomp Pro
    • Product Groups
    • Raspberry Pi
    • RoadTests & Reviews
  • Store
    Store
    • Visit Your Store
    • Choose another store...
      • Europe
      •  Austria (German)
      •  Belgium (Dutch, French)
      •  Bulgaria (Bulgarian)
      •  Czech Republic (Czech)
      •  Denmark (Danish)
      •  Estonia (Estonian)
      •  Finland (Finnish)
      •  France (French)
      •  Germany (German)
      •  Hungary (Hungarian)
      •  Ireland
      •  Israel
      •  Italy (Italian)
      •  Latvia (Latvian)
      •  
      •  Lithuania (Lithuanian)
      •  Netherlands (Dutch)
      •  Norway (Norwegian)
      •  Poland (Polish)
      •  Portugal (Portuguese)
      •  Romania (Romanian)
      •  Russia (Russian)
      •  Slovakia (Slovak)
      •  Slovenia (Slovenian)
      •  Spain (Spanish)
      •  Sweden (Swedish)
      •  Switzerland(German, French)
      •  Turkey (Turkish)
      •  United Kingdom
      • Asia Pacific
      •  Australia
      •  China
      •  Hong Kong
      •  India
      •  Japan
      •  Korea (Korean)
      •  Malaysia
      •  New Zealand
      •  Philippines
      •  Singapore
      •  Taiwan
      •  Thailand (Thai)
      •  Vietnam
      • Americas
      •  Brazil (Portuguese)
      •  Canada
      •  Mexico (Spanish)
      •  United States
      Can't find the country/region you're looking for? Visit our export site or find a local distributor.
  • Translate
  • Profile
  • Settings
Feedback and Support
  • Community Hub
  • More
Feedback and Support
Site Update Blog Improving search experience on our transactional sites
  • Blog
  • Forum
  • Documents
  • Polls
  • Files
  • Mentions
  • Sub-Groups
  • Tags
  • More
  • Cancel
  • New
Blog Actions
  • Share
  • More
  • Cancel
Group Actions
  • Group RSS
  • More
  • Cancel
Engagement
  • Author Author: Dudley
  • Date Created: 8 Apr 2016 2:22 PM Date Created
  • Views 767 views
  • Likes 4 likes
  • Comments 7 comments
Blog Details
  • search
  • parametric search
  • element14
  • newark
  • farnell
  • transaction
  • parametric
  • transactional search
Related
Recommended

Improving search experience on our transactional sites

Dudley
Dudley
8 Apr 2016

We've had a response from our search team about some of the complaints we've had about searching on the transactional site.

 

 

We’ve been receiving some excellent feedback from you all on our new parametric search page. It’s a big step forward for us, making an effort to follow industry best practices. We totally appreciate that with any leap forward, we also need to remain agile as we test out these kinds of modifications. And your feedback is helping us to quickly hone in on what’s needed.

 

Some recommendations, like the removal of the white banner at the top of the page that says “You can view all these products now, or if you know what you are looking to find, you can narrow the results down further using the filters” is already under way. However, its removal places a considerable load on our infrastructure because it leads to products being shown right away with a lot of data, so we just need to phase it’s removal across the 40+ websites. Rest assured it’s all underway, though.

 

Other concerns, such as the speed and performance of filters, are being closely monitored and where issues can be nailed down, they’re being addressed. We’re working hard on all changes, monitoring and measurement, and we appreciate all the help and feedback you’ve been providing.

 

We’ll keep you updated on our progress right here in the comments (feel free to bookmark this post so you get the news as it happens).

 

Best regards,

 

Your design team.

 

  • Sign in to reply

Top Comments

  • Dudley
    Dudley over 9 years ago in reply to shabaz +1
    I'll make sure they know that Thanks shabaz . Calm, balanced and well thought out feedback, as ever!
  • clem57
    clem57 over 9 years ago in reply to michaelkellett

    Hard to go back anymore.Well we can be hopeful in the future.Thanks MK

    • Cancel
    • Vote Up 0 Vote Down
    • Sign in to reply
    • More
    • Cancel
  • michaelkellett
    michaelkellett over 9 years ago in reply to clem57

    A bit, but it's still not anything like as good as it used to be.

     

    MK

    • Cancel
    • Vote Up 0 Vote Down
    • Sign in to reply
    • More
    • Cancel
  • clem57
    clem57 over 9 years ago in reply to michaelkellett

    Hi Michael, has this improved since this post?

    • Cancel
    • Vote Up 0 Vote Down
    • Sign in to reply
    • More
    • Cancel
  • PEarle
    PEarle over 9 years ago

    "...we also need to remain agile..."

     

    LOL

    • Cancel
    • Vote Up 0 Vote Down
    • Sign in to reply
    • More
    • Cancel
  • michaelkellett
    michaelkellett over 9 years ago

    The changed search is not a step forward and is is nowhere near industry best practice . It is not  a leap forward either and the tone of this reply, in my opinion, demonstrates utter contempt for the reasonable critical response from customers.

     

    Since the "design team" seem not to have understood:

     

    The new search engine is inferior in every way to the old one as far as customer experience goes. It is MUCH slower to use and will definitely propel me to check out other suppliers much more frequently. It is likely that Farnell will be demoted from it s current position of supplier of first resort as far as I'm concerned.

     

    Please go back to the older version and if you must make changes then cut down the amount of white space (so it can show more items on the screen at once) and try to improve the data base so that the parametric searches work better.

     

    To see for yourself just how bad the new search tool is - try to find the cheapest N channel MOSFET in SOT 23 with less than 0.1R on resistance with a gate drive of 3V or less in stock , no US sources, cut tape.

     

    Then, if you can, try the same thing on the old search engine, on Digikey, RS.

     

     

    MK

    • Cancel
    • Vote Up 0 Vote Down
    • Sign in to reply
    • More
    • Cancel
>
element14 Community

element14 is the first online community specifically for engineers. Connect with your peers and get expert answers to your questions.

  • Members
  • Learn
  • Technologies
  • Challenges & Projects
  • Products
  • Store
  • About Us
  • Feedback & Support
  • FAQs
  • Terms of Use
  • Privacy Policy
  • Legal and Copyright Notices
  • Sitemap
  • Cookies

An Avnet Company © 2026 Premier Farnell Limited. All Rights Reserved.

Premier Farnell Ltd, registered in England and Wales (no 00876412), registered office: Farnell House, Forge Lane, Leeds LS12 2NE.

ICP 备案号 10220084.

Follow element14

  • X
  • Facebook
  • linkedin
  • YouTube