We've just come across your poll and comments on didtheydie.com whilst doing a Google search, and though you have closed off the topic would like to respond to your comments.
Sorry you didn't all like it.
Sorry, in fact, that none of you seem to like it
To answer some direct points:
1. The Queen Mother (Gawd bless her etc.) is in there, under her full name Elizabeth Bowes-Lion which is the name she had registered at William Hill. However we will get her "alias" ("The Queen Mother") entered into the database as soon as possible.
2. It does give you the real answer, however not until you have determined whether you think he/she is dead or alive. In this way you get to see who is alive, but at the same time who the public think are dead owing to their lack of media coverage/youth or talent.
3. The search facility handles mis-spellings pretty well actually. However as the site is in it's infancy there are only about 300 stiffs on there at present.
4. Failed searches are recorded and go into "workflow" to be included as soon as possible.
Despite the fact you generally don't like DTD your comments are extremely useful, so thank you. Perhaps it's not clear to users exactly how it works, and we need to make it clearer.
Regardless, if you have any suggestions for improvement (over and above "it's crud, close it down!!") we'd genuinely like to hear them, and will probably act on them.
Best regards and utmost respect to the "deathlist"
XT.
