Data at Your Fingertips: Explore Our New Reporting and Statistical Capabilities By Ryan Ashbrook Yesterday at 01:29 PM
Management Matt Posted November 15, 2017 Management Share Posted November 15, 2017 Hi all, We're working on some search improvements which are live on our community here, and we'd love for you to test it and let us know what you think. Feel free to have a poke around and evaluate the quality of the results. Let us know how you get on. Thanks! Matt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-FP Posted November 15, 2017 Share Posted November 15, 2017 Great! Did 3 searches that I did the past weeks looking for some very specific things. Previously Google did a better job at getting me that, but now searching here I get right away what I needed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Management Matt Posted November 15, 2017 Author Management Share Posted November 15, 2017 11 minutes ago, -FP said: Great! Did 3 searches that I did the past weeks looking for some very specific things. Previously Google did a better job at getting me that, but now searching here I get right away what I needed. Thanks! That's great to hear. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adlago Posted November 15, 2017 Share Posted November 15, 2017 I tested in one word and in two words - the result contains exactly what I am looking for. I also tried searching for members with only three entered letters - a very fast and astonishingly accurate result. Now search is working very well - I think Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jair101 Posted November 15, 2017 Share Posted November 15, 2017 From initial impression search looks good, but I have noticed that in Activity Stream, there are repeated items. My settings are on show "Items only": Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DannyPhantom Posted November 15, 2017 Share Posted November 15, 2017 Commerce? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wonster Posted November 16, 2017 Share Posted November 16, 2017 3 hours ago, DannyPhantom said: Commerce? crickets Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Square Wheels Posted November 16, 2017 Share Posted November 16, 2017 7 hours ago, jair101 said: I have noticed that in Activity Stream, there are repeated items. Same here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris027 Posted November 16, 2017 Share Posted November 16, 2017 The search is way too specific. For example, I know I posted in a topic about excluding ignored users from the activity stream. Trying to find that topic was really hard because I needed the exact words. Example: Ignored Users Activity Stream = results contained my topic ignore users activity stream = results didn't contain my topic ignored user activity stream = results didn't contain my topic ignore activity stream = results didn't contain my topic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
optrexnz Posted November 16, 2017 Share Posted November 16, 2017 11 hours ago, jair101 said: in Activity Stream, there are repeated items. My settings are on show "Items only": I'm also seeing read posts in the results of the AS when another new post is made Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Posted November 16, 2017 Share Posted November 16, 2017 3 hours ago, Chris027 said: The search is way too specific. For example, I know I posted in a topic about excluding ignored users from the activity stream. Trying to find that topic was really hard because I needed the exact words. Example: Ignored Users Activity Stream = results contained my topic ignore users activity stream = results didn't contain my topic ignored user activity stream = results didn't contain my topic ignore activity stream = results didn't contain my topic If you click this, do you get the result you were looking for? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PPlanet Posted November 16, 2017 Share Posted November 16, 2017 19 hours ago, jair101 said: From initial impression search looks good, but I have noticed that in Activity Stream, there are repeated items. My settings are on show "Items only": I thought I was going mad but glad to see others noticed it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apfelstrudel Posted November 16, 2017 Share Posted November 16, 2017 BTW, I was always thinking about the question: Who really needs this view, showing every posting of a topic? ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris027 Posted November 16, 2017 Share Posted November 16, 2017 6 hours ago, Mark said: If you click this, do you get the result you were looking for? Now when I search for the exact title of the topic I was trying to find, it doesn't appear in the search results. My search terms - Exclude Ignored Users From Activity Stream the topic - Just now, Chris027 said: Now when I search for the exact title of the topic I was trying to find, it doesn't appear in the search results. My search terms - Exclude Ignored Users From Activity Stream the topic - Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Management Charles Posted November 16, 2017 Management Share Posted November 16, 2017 In your screenshot please take note of the message above the search input box Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LiquidFractal Posted November 16, 2017 Share Posted November 16, 2017 Just ran a search across all content for "humanities". First result returned was: Which has one reference to "humanity's". Second result returned was: Which had one reference to "human". Third result returned: One reference to "human". Now, I know for a fact that I have used the word "humanities" in my own previous posts (as in "arts & humanities"). And it is only when I narrow the search using my author name that those posts come up. Which, of course, I shouldn't have to do. So judging from that.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Management Matt Posted November 16, 2017 Author Management Share Posted November 16, 2017 1 hour ago, liquidfractal said: Just ran a search across all content for "humanities". First result returned was: Which has one reference to "humanity's". Second result returned was: Which had one reference to "human". Third result returned: One reference to "human". Now, I know for a fact that I have used the word "humanities" in my own previous posts (as in "arts & humanities"). And it is only when I narrow the search using my author name that those posts come up. Which, of course, I shouldn't have to do. So judging from that.... We're actually testing a stemming feature here, so that is as intended to a degree. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joel R Posted November 16, 2017 Share Posted November 16, 2017 I think one tangential point that @liquidfractal brought up is the bias in search results for our own content. For example, I also test searched for content I knew I wrote about but my results were down in the results. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RevengeFNF Posted November 17, 2017 Share Posted November 17, 2017 12 hours ago, Matt said: We're actually testing a stemming feature here, so that is as intended to a degree. Does mysql support stemming search or is IPS using a 3rd party search engine? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sonya* Posted November 17, 2017 Share Posted November 17, 2017 12 hours ago, Matt said: We're actually testing a stemming feature here, so that is as intended to a degree. Will stemming feature work for English only? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Posted November 17, 2017 Share Posted November 17, 2017 @jair101 / @Square Wheels / @PPlanet Thanks, duplicates should be fixed now (it's rebuilding again now) @DannyPhantom / @amator / @RevengeFNF / @Sonya* We're just playing around with some ideas now and using this site as a test bed because there's lots of data. We'll let you know about our plans in the News area once we've finished our experimentation @Chris027 Thanks for providing that information. It looks like the decay on older content was a bit too aggressive. I'm going to tweak it a bit. @optrexnz Can you provide a screenshot? @Apfelstrudel Lots of people like to see a stream of all content, all posts included @liquidfractal Thanks, I'll take a look into that. It looks like you might be experiencing the same issue with the over-aggressive time-based decay, but I'll do some more research. @Joel R You can always filter by author if you know whose content you're looking for, but it sounds like in these examples there's further tweaking to be done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Posted November 17, 2017 Share Posted November 17, 2017 I've tweaked the time decay algorithm. Let me know if you have any good examples of where you're trying to find something and it's not showing up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LiquidFractal Posted November 18, 2017 Share Posted November 18, 2017 9 hours ago, Mark said: I've tweaked the time decay algorithm. Let me know if you have any good examples of where you're trying to find something and it's not showing up. Ok: Once again, I ran a search on all content for a word I know I've written: "educator". First result: "education," but not "educator." #2: Again it has "education" only. #3: has "educational." Long story short, my two posts with "educator" highlighted in the search results came in at #5 and #11, which is somewhat curious. Hope this helps! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Posted November 19, 2017 Share Posted November 19, 2017 @liquidfractal Can you provide the link to the post you were expecting to find (for example, by using filtering by author)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LiquidFractal Posted November 19, 2017 Share Posted November 19, 2017 58 minutes ago, Mark said: @liquidfractal Can you provide the link to the post you were expecting to find (for example, by using filtering by author)? The first one (i.e. the one in position #6) is here: The other one (which comes in position #12) is here: These were the posts I expected to find at the top of the list, but could only see them at the top by filtering by my author name. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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