Timeline for Why using search Title:html5 not return anything while title:html5 works
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| Apr 24, 2011 at 22:56 | history | edited | Nick CraverMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 25, 2011 at 21:46 | comment | added | Gabe | @Tony: Google also has several orders of magnitude more engineers than SO has! | |
| Feb 20, 2011 at 5:45 | comment | added | Tony_Henrich | I wouldn't say it's a bug. I would say SO is not proactive enough and it's not helping the user. How about being like Google? Google doesn't stop working if I misspelled a keyword. It says "Did you mean.. " and brings back results for the correct spelling. In this case I am happy and thankful. SO can be smarter and say "Did you mean title:.." and brings back results. Or lowercase Title if the search parser understands "title" only. Being more proactive goes along way instead of bringing nothing back and blame the user. | |
| Feb 20, 2011 at 1:19 | comment | added | Nick Craver Mod | @Tony_Henrich - I'm not completely following here: "if the system is case insensitive"...but it is case-sensitive, that's your bug report is it not? This is something I will look at when we're making larger changes to search parsing, but not something immediate. Parsing the search is actually a quite complicated process, something we're looking at simplifying, now that it's evolved into something more stable in terms of a feature-set. | |
| Feb 19, 2011 at 19:05 | comment | added | Tony_Henrich | Sometimes I use a device which capitalizes first letter and I have to do more work to lower case it. A good UI should not force users to enter text in a certain case if the system is case insensitive. SO should take the input and lower case it in this case. Eg: url's are not case sensitive. StackOverfloW.cOm works. | |
| Feb 19, 2011 at 9:50 | history | answered | Nick CraverMod | CC BY-SA 2.5 |