Monday, May 25, 2020

Info 1288: Blog search issues

Recently, I didn't encountered blog search issue with the blog seach widget on the right, but after searching for my other blog, it turns out that some posts are not displayed. Others are displayed twice. Also not sure about the order. Usually newest posts on top.
The search box on top (via Google advanced search) is even worse.
I assume the issues are due to the different import ways and somehow posts are not indexed. Probably posts without pics have lower priorities.
Similar problems with my internal dashboard search. Some duplicates, I only found via the rating tags but these are sometimes different.

So I will fix links, especially in the series and season's entries.
All posts are there.
You can also find posts when flipping through all the archives of that particular month. Links have year and month included.

Update: It's important to search with the beginning complete words.
"Avonlea" not finding all posts starting with Road to Avonlea.
Info 163: Update: Road to... can better be found via Info 163.
Words must be full.
Road to Avonlea s6e2 can't be found when just searching for Road to Avonlea -s6.
I have to look for better search widgets.

Update 2: Sometimes the blog search works better. Especially when the full post title is entered. Some punctuations like dashes and colons might be an issue. Same for different apostrophes, diacritics, non-Latin or other special characters, but that search seems to work better here.

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