Don’t miss the bliss of summer improvements on CGTrader platform

Better, faster, smarter. It’s been great three months ‘round here. While many of you had been sipping the summer’s nectar, we had worked tirelessly to bring you a massively improved search engine that returns more relevant search results in less time. You can call us overachievers all you want – the minute you will try the new search, you’ll agree it was worth the fight. We’ve moved to the new version of ElasticSearch search server, which helps us to achieve fast search responses, because it browses the index instead of searching the text directly. Although speed was one of the key priorities, we’ve also managed to improve the relevancy of the search results and search suggestions. And that’s all due to the balance that was struck between the relevancy of search results and the quality We’ve also performed some magic in the search engine suggestions department. You’ll now get up to 10 keyword suggestions that will be as close to whatever you’re looking for as possible. Enjoy the smart search!

Check out the improved checkout. Welcome to the all-new integrated checkout process! No matter whether you’re using a credit card or your PayPal account, you no longer need to leave the checkout page to proceed with the payment. What’s more, the credit card is no longer connected to your PayPal account, so it’s all smoother and easier. * smirk *

One last thing – with the easier checkout process we’re also stepping up our transaction security. We’re now using Braintree service, so don’t leave the shopping bag empty for too long.

You are safe with us. We decided to take our security a notch further and adopted HTTPS. As you probably know, it’s the secure, encrypted way to communicate and share information on the Internet. So although this move doesn’t mean any obvious changes for you, we believe it’s an important step for the business and we are as confident as ever to handle everything that comes our way.

Back to cool. September is always a busy month. So as you’re slowly getting back to your working rhythm, we are delighted to welcome you back to a better- running and hugely improved platform. Enjoy the better than ever CGTrader experience (and let us know if you don’t!).