We’ve just upgraded the concerts search on http://livekick.com and we would like to share with you why we feel good about it. Google is the king of general purpose web search and Yahoo! and Microsoft are trying to catch up, partly by having better vertical search results in some domains. The new Microsoft Bing search engine is about to introduce several targeted vertical search results options. We, at Livekick are trying to provide the best search in just one area – US Live music concerts, so we’ve optimized the experience based on how people search for live concerts on the web. We believe we have a pretty good solution. Read on and judge for yourself. Let us know how you like our new search.
Results are fetched from our daily updated database of all US upcoming concerts, performing artists and venues. Our current index includes about 80,000 concerts, 20,000 artists on tour and 40,000 live venues and includes both small and large concerts and venues.
Search results are now displayed in 3 tabs – Artists, Concerts and Venues. Most people search for concerts by entering an artist name. For these searches, we made it easy and fast to disambiguate between artists with the same name or with similar names to the search query to catch common misspellings, so users can quickly get to the relevant artist tour page and check out local and nationwide concert for this artist. Here are few examples: Fleetwood Mac concerts near NY , Beastie Boys concerts near San Francisco . The results include the number of local concerts based on where you search from, so it is easy to see if the band you are searching about plays near you.
Some people search by festival or concert name and in some cases these names do not match a performing artist name. For example try: All Points West Festival and just click on the ‘Concerts’ tab. These users will like the results in the new Concerts tab. The tab will list all concerts with similar names to the search query and will group local and nationwide concerts separately.
Some people search by venue name to see a list of upcoming concerts in a venue. Venue results are displayed in the new Venues tab. All results are local based on where users search from, so searching for Fillmore in San Francisco will show the local famous venue first in the Venues results tab. For example. Try one of these links and click on the ‘Venue’ tab in the results: search results for Fillmore when searching from the Bay Area. Search results for Fillmore when searching from NY.
