I received this posting from Ancestry.com. What I haven't done yet, is to see if there is any impact on Family Tree Maker 2012 with this new search. IF there are any impacts, I'll post a follow up message here.
Ancestry.com is continuing our efforts to improve the search experience across
Ancestry.com and will be
making changes to our search functionality in the upcoming months. Some
features will be added and some will be discontinued. As part of the 2%
of our subscribers that use the old search function on the site, we know
that you
are passionate about the search experience on Ancestry.com and
we are reaching out to you to get input on potential improvements. We
hope you will take the opportunity to share your insights and feedback
on our plans.
To identify which areas of the experience we should focus on this year, we have drawn on customer input, usage data, usage patterns and our old search function for inspiration. From all of that, we are looking at making your time on Ancestry.com more productive by improving these areas of the search experience in 2013:
To identify which areas of the experience we should focus on this year, we have drawn on customer input, usage data, usage patterns and our old search function for inspiration. From all of that, we are looking at making your time on Ancestry.com more productive by improving these areas of the search experience in 2013:
- More relevant search results with the best results at the top
- Easier refining and control of your search results
- Keeping a better history of the work you have done
- Publishing more new content and more corrections to existing content
- Performance improvements to return results faster
As
we begin to make these improvements, we will no longer maintain two
separate search systems for the site. Maintaining two systems limits the
resources we can
use to make improvements and increases the complexity of every
improvement we try to make. Additionally, continuing to maintain the two
systems limits our ability to direct more investment into other areas
like adding more record collections and correcting
existing collections.
Based on that, as a part of the work this year we will be bringing together the two search experiences into a single search experience on Ancestry.com. We hope to bring forward the best features of both the old and new search systems into the consolidated experience to facilitate the transition for our users and to improve the overall search experience. We expect to discontinue the old search function as a separate experience within the next 6 months.
As a user of the old search feature, we wanted to give you advance notice and let you influence the changes we are making in search. Please take this survey to share your feedback and ideas on key features to improve.
Best regards,
The Ancestry.com Product Team
Based on that, as a part of the work this year we will be bringing together the two search experiences into a single search experience on Ancestry.com. We hope to bring forward the best features of both the old and new search systems into the consolidated experience to facilitate the transition for our users and to improve the overall search experience. We expect to discontinue the old search function as a separate experience within the next 6 months.
As a user of the old search feature, we wanted to give you advance notice and let you influence the changes we are making in search. Please take this survey to share your feedback and ideas on key features to improve.
Best regards,
The Ancestry.com Product Team
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