Improve the search engine
The posting is inspired from:
http://opengameart.org/content/improvements-to-content-curation
I had trouble with the search myself at times. It seems sometimes it just finds nothing and sometimes too much not relevant.
I think it would be surely good to have more tags but i think the problem might just be solved by figuring out the proper search syntax and make a little manual how to search right.
As example to search http://opengameart.org/content/liberated-pixel-cup-lpc-base-assets-sprit...
i would assume that if i enter lpc base in the searchfield title i would get only items that contain lpc AND base and only when it is in the title.
The result looks however a bit different: i get LPC tile atlas first so i assume when i enter lpc base it searches for titles with LPC or base.
It might even be easy to solve in the drupal settings. I had a drupal site but it is too long ago to remember where this setting would be.
But what is more it would be good to have a reference to the search engine syntax and examples what you need to enter so search something.
btw what would i need to enter to search "lpc" and "base" where only both words return a result.
Most important for this solution is that it can be solved in a fairly quick time: A setting changed. a short manual written and linked the manual from the search engine.
Long read: http://opengameart.org/forumtopic/site-administration
short read: the search is broken (example: http://opengameart.org/forumtopic/search-broken)
That one seems fixed...
hmm... Yeah, I've usually seen it on search sites where you can do 'lpc+base' to get results that match both lpc AND base. But checking that just now it doesn't seem to work that way on OGA. No matter what you do, it always seems to do an OR search.
Well I'll add my voice to the cause and say I agree having some way to do an 'AND' search would be very useful. Of course, I'd prefer search got fixed to return results past Jan 2016 first.... :)
Well it either is fixed or it is only related to the normal search which might just not work well at all.
You can find new items with the title search and i am not sure what kind of bug it is or how to reproduce it:
http://opengameart.org/art-search-advanced?keys=&title=%22Attack+icon+fo...
Yeah, like I was saying in the other thread, the title search was specifcally added as a work around for the main search being broken. I think the deal is the title search just looks at the title field which doesn't require any fancy indexing to stay updated. But the main search searches the text of several fields (description, comments, etc) and so in order to be remotely fast, it requires some kind of advanced routines to run and keep it's index/cache current. And something is either broken with those routines or with the thing that is supposed to make sure they get run. Well at least that's my speculation looking at the situation purely from the outside.
I am not sure what it does search but i think drupal should have a working full text search module.
I can only guess: Is the search a custom module bart wrote?
If so it might be horrible hard to fix. And it might be less time consuming to look if its possible to just replace it with a drupal module.
The catch is that to change the settings to search for all terms might be just switching a button in the ui.