Webfork sent me a PM telling me that when searching for eg. "7-zip", he gets a lot of other entries with "zip" or 7-zip" in their description. He asked if there's a way to prioritize the actual 7-zip DB entry in the final listing.
After mulling over it, introducing another sort order that prioritizes search results with keywords found in the title turns out to be more complicated than I thought. A simpler way was to introduce a new parameter in the detailed search page called "Scope", that lets you determine which fields you want to search.
So for the example that webfork mentioned, searching for "7zip" within only "Keywords" will turn up the exact entry that he wants.
Thanks to webfork for bringing this to my attention. Do lemme know if you find any bugs.
New detailed search option: Scope
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Re: New detailed search option: Scope
I've often wanted this
What I've found though is searching '7-zip' for the Title only search doesn't return the entry. Is there a reason for this, such as the search being confused by the - symbol?
Edit: searched again and it now appears using the Title only search. Strange. DiskInternals ZIP Repair also is returned for some reason.
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Edit: searched again and it now appears using the Title only search. Strange. DiskInternals ZIP Repair also is returned for some reason.
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Re: New detailed search option: Scope
It's not actually "confused"I've often wanted thisWhat I've found though is searching '7-zip' for the Title only search doesn't return the entry. Is there a reason for this, such as the search being confused by the - symbol?
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I think Google spoils us so much we often forget how difficult and complex a problem free text search is when dealing with non-alphanumeric characters and special names!
For most cases, if you want to reach the database entry of a particular app quickly, turning off "Description" (leaving "Title" and "Keywords") will be ideal. Then you can just type "7zip" (without the hyphen) and get what you want.