Originally posted by Sandy Hancock ....the next step might be rearranging the entries in each new category by focal length.
Part of what I have been doing is standardising the focal length and aperture line.
Once that is done they should sort accurately.
Working on it makes it clear that it is not a simple matter to get things right. For instance when we made the Soligor section by searching "Soligor" out of the "misc lenses" we ended up with 50 items in prime and zoom combined. But if (on the 3rd party home page) you search "soligor" you get about 80 hits. These 30 extra hits are in places like the Vivitar section where many lenses are also labelled Soligor. It is unclear how many of these are new models and how many are duplicates. But it means a few models are missing from the Soligor section. Because of this I don't think it is a great idea to create any more of the front page brands because this problem gets progressively worse.
What I have learnt is the 3rd party front page search searches the brands as well as "misc" but misc search is a subset restricted to itself.
And it is the misc search that is clunky for some reason. The other one is great.