Couple of little issues for the search function. The first is "fuzzy" searching. At the moment, if you search for "mcdonalds" in the directory you'll get no results; you have to search for "mcdonald's" (with the apostrophe) in order to see the relevant entries. Also if someone slightly misspells an entry, they won't get any results (for example, searching for "bobundaye" won't bring up the entry you want, only "bobwundaye" will). Any chance of adding something like the Google "did you mean Bobwundaye?" feature?
The second one is a little odd. I have 1Password installed on my Mac, and integrated into Safari. Using the search function on Taiwanease triggers a 1Password dialogue box asking if I want to save this login. This is not something that happens with searches on other sites.
Taffy wrote:Couple of little issues for the search function. The first is "fuzzy" searching. At the moment, if you search for "mcdonalds" in the directory you'll get no results; you have to search for "mcdonald's" (with the apostrophe) in order to see the relevant entries. Also if someone slightly misspells an entry, they won't get any results (for example, searching for "bobundaye" won't bring up the entry you want, only "bobwundaye" will). Any chance of adding something like the Google "did you mean Bobwundaye?" feature?
The second one is a little odd. I have 1Password installed on my Mac, and integrated into Safari. Using the search function on Taiwanease triggers a 1Password dialogue box asking if I want to save this login. This is not something that happens with searches on other sites.
1) It is actually a lot of effort to implement a search function like that (Google has hundreds of engineers, we only have a few). We would like to, but there are many things on the docket.
2) I have no idear... It is a but odd. Normally, they are proced by fields set with the "password" type. Our isn't I can look at it, but I'm not sure if I can help on this one. For once, I might actually be able to say it is another applications problem.
-Beak You have no idea where I've been... unless you're stalking me... in which case, can you tell me where I was last week?
Beaker wrote:It is actually a lot of effort to implement a search function like that (Google has hundreds of engineers, we only have a few). We would like to, but there are many things on the docket.
This is precisely what overtime and horsewhips were designed for. Fair enough though, I understand it's not a priority.
I have no idear... It is a but odd. Normally, they are proced by fields set with the "password" type. Our isn't I can look at it, but I'm not sure if I can help on this one. For once, I might actually be able to say it is another applications problem.
Sometimes (not always), when I click on the Search... button and start typing (e.g. "pet peeves"), the field retains the word "search", along with what I'm typing, so I end up with something like "sepet peevesarch...". Grrrr.
Edit: I'm on the latest version of Firefox, 12.0, only 11 days old.
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Taffy wrote:Couple of little issues for the search function. The first is "fuzzy" searching. At the moment, if you search for "mcdonalds" in the directory you'll get no results; you have to search for "mcdonald's" (with the apostrophe) in order to see the relevant entries. Also if someone slightly misspells an entry, they won't get any results (for example, searching for "bobundaye" won't bring up the entry you want, only "bobwundaye" will). Any chance of adding something like the Google "did you mean Bobwundaye?" feature?
The second one is a little odd. I have 1Password installed on my Mac, and integrated into Safari. Using the search function on Taiwanease triggers a 1Password dialogue box asking if I want to save this login. This is not something that happens with searches on other sites.
Alright, so this morning I added a bit more intelligence to our searches. It isn't perfect by any means, but a few hacks and I got something okay working.
1) If you mispell something by 1 letter, such as bobundaye, Bobwundaye will still pop up. 2) If you search for Oyesters, anything with Oyester will show up. This one is a bit spotty. It must be at least 4 characters long to proc this function to avoid popping up thousands of results.
-Beak You have no idea where I've been... unless you're stalking me... in which case, can you tell me where I was last week?
Beaker wrote:Alright, so this morning I added a bit more intelligence to our searches. It isn't perfect by any means, but a few hacks and I got something okay working.
Beaker wrote:2) If you search for Oyesters, anything with Oyester will show up. This one is a bit spotty. It must be at least 4 characters long to proc this function to avoid popping up thousands of results.
Yes, but you have to use the correct spelling of "oysters" to get the correct results. If you search for "oyesters" only the misspelled postings show up. Ideally, if someone types in the incorrect "oyesters" then the results would come back with the posts with the correct "oysters" in it. No?
It isn't the same hack for entering "bivalve molluscs" and getting oyster results.
Just giving you a happy Saturday afternoon greeting Beaker.
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