Thread: Maplin stores
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Old 26th Feb 2018, 11:34 pm   #143
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Default Re: Maplin stores

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Originally Posted by dseymo1 View Post
It's incomprehensible to me why so many websites - not only Maplin's - are so bad.
There must surely be a de facto standard by now for translating a website query into an SQL search or similar.
The obvious workaround is to use an internet search engine. Type 'Maplin 1uF 16V' into Google, and it returns the best matches, which are easily sorted manually by the brief extracts provided.
That was the problem, up till the latest Maplin web sort out. The staff at my local store told me that they had more chance of finding a component by doing a google search than by a Maplin online search.
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