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I would go as far as 5 to 7 keywords per product. Too many listings are littered with spam making search unproductive. I find myself using google to search https://marketplace.secondlife.com so that I can find things by title only. I mentioned how I achieve this elsewhere on this forum.

This is an observation, NOT A COMPLAINT.... This is a BETA and there WILL BE BUGS! I have noticed something... It appears that items from my store are missing when I view it from the BETA marketplace.... When I switch back to the old version the missing items are back again.. That means if people are using the new beta search some of my merchandise may possibly be excluded from some results. =( I respectfully submit that there needs to be a link to documentation on using the new search once a user selects to be redirected into the new engine. How are we to know what the new features are if they are completely transparent to us?

I hate to necrobump an old thread BUT this may be of use to someone! Today I was trying to find something specific on the MP and search by TITLE is not available - then a lightbulb went off in my head... This is the EVIL way to search the marketplace when looking for specific things! I find this is better than using MP search! USING GOOGLE, you may specify what it is that you are looking for and which website to search. Example: white gloves site:https://marketplace.secondlife.com Google will search the site you specified and give you a listing based on your criteria. It ignores all keywords used in a product listing and gives you the results you are actually looking for... The downside is that it might not work if searching age restricted content. I certainly hope this saves someone time! =D

As a newbie to SL and a mesh content creator I do not know how to digest all of this. If it is true that Linden Lab will continue to let Second Life operate as is, then that leaves little to worry about. I do not have to be concerned about the hundreds of dollars I have spent on content and I can continue to see sales of my products for this platform. I would imagine that It is not in the best interest of LL to shut down SL in favor of a new grid otherwise it would upset a lot of people and cause a lot of harm to their business. Linden labs has every right to create a new closed sourced platform/world. That does NOT mean consumers MUST adopt it. Closed source DOES NOT MEAN more security, otherwise we would not have to worry about trojans in Microsoft Windows right? Closed source does not stop hackers from stealing content. It only prevents third parties from bringing new viewer features to the table and it prevents innovators from improving the software or forking it. At present there isn't a 64bit official SL viewer for my favorite OS (Linux) yet Firestorm offers a feature rich viewer in 64bit which runs very well on my distribution. That said, I would not even be using Second Life if it were not for third party viewers. There needs to be a way to keep the community in the loop. At the end of the day I think the new platform will be a hard sell on existing linden residents. My computer I am using is not even capable of running SL at the highest possible quality without stuttering a little and that is one thing which is attractive; people do not have to upgrade their hardware to enjoy these virtual worlds. My computer is not a race winner, but I know a lot of people who use SL with systems that are a lot older than mine... LL will need a way to convince people to abandon their present SL investments to move onto the new platform. I do not have a clue as to how they will achieve this but I am willing to bet they might need to offer more than keeping your screen name, friends list and linden dollar accounts. Several grids claim they can offer "more" yet when we look at them it is far from the truth. Providers such as Kitely, Inworlz or OSGrid cannot succeed because they do not have an audience and as such the content developers will not make products for those grids because the consumer base is not there!

Anthony, your suggestion did the trick! I have an AMD graphics card and I was sick of textures rebaking! THanks for the solve! I hope this helps other AMD/ATI users!