Hi!
I need to come back to an answer I got in another thread:
“Sorting applies to archive pages like /places/, not search.”
How is this supposed to work in a multi location site? Any user starting to look for anything will start with an search. Like on my site Category X in Location Y. So immediately the user starts with a search and BOOM – no sorting.
From the users angle this is weird as we are used to getting results in some sort of order, alphabetical if nothing else – or by quality and or number of reviews (Tripadvisor). As well that basically kills the ‘featured’ for listings marketing. If a listing owner pays to be featured and then appears at the bottom of a search – how can you ask money for that?
So if there is no way of making sorting work for search results in GD as is, in my humble opinion, this is a MAJOR issue I think you really should look into.
Cheers, ALEX