I remember the dev.to search being super useful, but it ain't so anymore
Compare a search for Sprint interview questions
https://dev.to/search?q=spring%20interview%20questions
Versus Google
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I've put in a bug report for this already here:
forem/issues/13746
I think it's doing a full text search of the post content but not the title.
That seems like a fair assessment, I might have a gander at the query and see if I can offer any suggestions.
Normally I would do a weighted search based on exact match, all words, some words and one word and then a further weighting on whether it is in the title (higher weight) or number of occurrences in the body.
But given the size of dev.to database that would be a really slow query!
I believe there should be option for advance search included. Personally, There are times where I remember parts of title of a post I read in past, and now when I need another look for that, I can't search for it. An advance search where I can just choose to run full-text-search on titles only, will make my life easier.
Yes the search is not working properly. Search is very important feature. Sometime i want search my own comments and its not possible.
@ben
I think comparing Google search to Dev.to search is like comparing the international space station to a potato 🥔
Yah, essentially useless :(