Improve searching by using smashed titles, multiple fields

It would be great if the search function were looser with search tems. Searching for "getsatisfaction" yields zero results. This should really be handled by a search indexer, which could smash titles and such.

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Cameron Walters replied on April 14, 2008 18:59

Brad,
You are totally right. Our search indexer is very rudimentary at the moment, and our search space is segmented into company spaces. We know it's not the best way to find everything on our site, and even we struggle with using it at times.

I assure you we have plans to make it much better, but I don't know exactly where that fits on the our roadmap and therefore on our development schedule. I wish I could tell you that I'm fixing it right now, but that's just not the case.

Do you happen to know any great search engineers that we could talk with? We like Lucene, maybe you do, too?

I’m sad we have no results for getsatisfaction

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