LDS Planet adds Keyword Search

I received a notice from LDS Planet this morning that I had a new message from someone.  I logged in to see it (it’s so rare, that I thought I’d better check it out before the offer expired!) and noticed that LDS Planet has added a keyword search to their list of search options.  I just recently finished my review of LDS Planet and this wasn’t an option at the time I did the review, so I thought I would check it out and tell you about it.

As you can tell from the screenshot (click to enlarge), this isn’t just the ability to search profiles for a specific keyword.  You can refine your keyword search to a particular age group, the gender, and how far someone lives from you.  I don’t know about you, but, personally I’m not looking for a long distance relationship.  (It’s tough even admitting I might actually be looking for a realtionship at all.)  So it doesn’t bother me in the least, that LDS Planet limits the distance parameters to 25, 50, or 100 miles.  If, however, you are looking for other LDS Singles that are further away from you than that, then the keyword search may not be for you.  To help you out, LDS Planet also given lists some choices of popular keyword searches that you can try.  These include: travel, dancing, movies, sense of humor, hiking, dining out and pets.

Obviously, if you have been reading this blog for very long, you know that I am an avid fan of rootbeer.  So, I used rootbeer as my first keyword search.  I thought that I would find out if there were any women, ages 38-43 within 100 miles of Salt Lake City who were fond enough of rootbeer to put it into their profile. As you can see from the screenshot, the message from LDS Planet was that I need to open up my possibilities.  (What do they know?)  Next I tried a differnet age group 32-37; same answer.  I tried again with the next older age group and finally with the “of any age” and got the same response each time.  Luckily,  having a potential partner be a rootbeer fanatic is not a deal breaker.

At the time I am writing this, I was thinking that Mexican sounded like a good idea for lunch, so I thought that I would search for women (incidentally, I always search for women), ages 38-43 within a 100 miles of Salt Lake City who like Mexican food enough to list it in their profile.  This search was much more successful.  It netted me three pages of result (approximately 30 individuals).  Which was awesome, until I started looking at the pages of profiles.  The last 2 pages (or 20 results) were of women who had not logged in to LDS Planet in over 30 days.

I tried a few other of my own keyword searches with similar results.  I even tested it with a keyword that was specific to the profile of the woman who sent me the message this morning to see if the keyword search was accurate.  Indeed, it is.

Finally, I gave the keyword suggestions that LDS Planet provides a spin.  I quickly discovered that whatever other parameters you want included in your search you should select first.  So if you want to find women, ages 38-43 who like movies within 25 miles of where you live, then select those options prior to clicking on “movies.”  (For you ladies, if you are looking for a man, age 32-37 who lives within 50 miles of you who enjoys hiking, then make those selections before selecting “hiking”).  I was actually happy to discover that the other criteria apply.

I will admit that I was a little leery about trying out the keyword search.  Mainly because the way that LDSSingles.com does their keyword search it creates little hyperlinks on the profiles of all the members.  And if you will remember from my review of LDS Singles, that was a huge annoyance to me.  I am happy to say however, that is not the case with LDS Planet; they have seamlessly incorporated the keyword search.  Kudos to them.

Now, that being said.  The issues I have with the keyword search are two and they are pretty minor.  I’m sure that I mentioned in my initial review of LDS Planet that not having the ability to define my own age group rather than select from predetermined ones or the ubiquitous “of any age” was an annoyance.  (If I didn’t I should have.)  That annoyance carries over to the keyword search feature as well; but admittedly it’s minor.  The other annoyance that I have is that I would like the option to filter out inactive profiles and perhaps profiles with no photos either.  Again, however, these are minor annoyances and don’t really affect the overall quality and enjoyment of the keyword search.

Really, you can have a lot of fun with the keyword search.  I wasted the better part of an hour just playing around.  For instance it was eye opening to read what women within 100 miles had to say about spiders!!  So, wanna have some fun and learn more about LDS Singles within a short distance of you?  Then head over to LDS Planet and check out the keyword search!

Remember: We’re LDS!  We’re Single!  And, we’re all in this together!

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