"Tim Watts" wrote in message
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On 06/07/15 11:45, fred wrote:
On Friday, July 3, 2015 at 10:25:07 PM UTC+1, Tim Watts wrote:
On 03/07/15 22:17, tim..... wrote:


since it went "up market" it now seems to be exclusively "professional"
B&B's charging commercial rates

The days when it was "spare rooms for 20 quid a night" has long gone

Reminds me rather of ebay. From flea-market to professional store front.

Except their search engine is ****e


True - Amazon at least have a search engine that admits "we are a store
front" and lets you add various parametric search terms, which get very
specific for certain types of goods.

But is completely ****ed because you can't sort the results unless
you specify a category and just ignores the keywords you include
with quite a few of the hits and you can't specify whether to search
just the title or the entire ad and doesn’t include the postal cost in
the results most of the time either.