[#SVC-1011] Meta-issue: New search

2. Second Life Service - SVC

Meta-issue: New search

Created: 30/Nov/07 05:37 AM Updated: 20/Jun/09 12:07 PM

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This issue Relates to:

VWR-7159 Search All relevance exploit

SVC-1025 new search can't deal with profile images with transparency

SVC-2586 Regions appear multiple times in search

VWR-7926 No longer possible to sort Search -> Group results by number of group members or alphabetically

VWR-3722 Only Some Classifieds Are Shown in Sidebar When Searching For Resident

VWR-8112 When displaying a group in HTML (new) search the button to display the group information is labeled wrong

VWR-6920 Cancelled Account Found in Search All, but not in Search People

~~VWR-3488~~ Windlight: New search all page cannot click hyperlinks

~~SVC-1060~~ Some parcels are not indexed in new search

~~VWR-3089~~ Search box in menu bar should be removed, moved, or made optional.

~~VWR-3351~~ Avatars not showing up in new All search in 1.18.5

~~VWR-7401~~ Entering Show Place in Web Based Search Not Immediate

~~VWR-8110~~ new html search page group tab lacks join button, making joining groups less intuitive

~~VWR-3341~~ Search All Classified Side Bar Dissapears on Clicking Next If Show Mature Unchecked

~~SVC-1017~~ Teleporting with the new search to a sim using a hub no longer shows a beacon at the original teleport target location

VWR-3555 Cannot copy text from NewSearch results

VWR-7790 bring back html based Seach > Places

VWR-3535 Get Rid of Search Box Annoyances

VWR-9231 Please add "Show on map" button to results in new search

VWR-3332 Classifieds Should Be Separated Out of SEARCH ALL and Kept in Separate Column

MISC-398 Meta-Issue: Meta-Issue Organization

This issue is related to by:

~~SVC-4422~~ Search listing faults

SVC-4123 All Searches - Irelevant Results - Keyword Spam - New Weighting

SVC-1230 Search doesn't recognise plurals?

SVC-1231 Some punctuation not recognised in search

VWR-8112 When displaying a group in HTML (new) search the button to display the group information is labeled wrong

VWR-8371 Ads are not showing up in all search tabs correctly.

SVC-2880 Search for myself actually finds me, but says "nothing found"

SVC-1066 Page not available error (XML-error) in the new search

VWR-10560 Show event venues in Showcase only when events are actually in progress

SVC-4223 Parcel not showing up in All search

VWR-12395 Paid Classifieds are not showing up in the right frame in ALL search

VWR-5372 People Search queries are modified and words less then 2 characters are removed.

MISC-2679 Group insignia NOT FOUND TEXTURE in SEARCH

~~VWR-3541~~ New search engine wont show my store

~~VWR-5164~~ Page Not Available

~~VWR-13501~~ Some parcels with payed Search fee are not visible in Search-All in 1.23 Release Candidate

~~SVC-4423~~ search errors

~~VWR-3302~~ Search feature "Include parcels with Mature content" cannot be turned off.

~~SVC-3327~~ Search results after 100 pages show "page Not Available" privacy statement

~~SVC-4247~~ ALL search suddenly doesnt show my add anymore while it IS still in CLASSIFIEDS search.

~~SVC-4282~~ search errors in placement

~~VWR-3563~~ Search looking for acronyms of multiple search words

~~VWR-8370~~ show place in search no longer shows the place in search

~~VWR-8110~~ new html search page group tab lacks join button, making joining groups less intuitive

~~MISC-889~~ ESCORT ISLAND search result from "all" tab shows unable to access due to privacy settings. Owners verify setting are correct and are losing business due to unavailable access by consumers.

~~VWR-7436~~ Picks found in search give "privacy issues prevent this being displayed" in search if you try to click though

~~VWR-10324~~ Land paid to be in search does not appear when it has previously

~~MISC-1844~~ Groups

~~VWR-10551~~ Search returning "MATURE" results even when "include parcels with Mature content" is UNCHECKED

~~SVC-3989~~ Free at Last love island not found in search

~~MISC-2651~~ In World Search Links

~~VWR-11952~~ Null region result when searching by non-ascii character.

~~VWR-3755~~ New Search: Buying a copy of a searchable object disables its "Show in search" status

~~VWR-3498~~ New Search returning Page Not Available error for all places and regions

~~VWR-3232~~ Group does not show up under new search when "group" is selected

~~VWR-3548~~ Cannot Ban a person from land that has profile hidden in search

~~SVC-953~~ Search of only classifieds in new search does not show ads in order of amount paid!

~~VWR-9131~~ Clicking "Region: [region's name]" link on top of every page of search results in "Search / All" displays 'Page Not Available' message.

VWR-3149 New search browser - open page in system browser

SVC-1704 Search result quality diminished by picks being used to showcase friends - make a new tab for friends in profile and remove ability to change pick description

VWR-11013 Search filter should properly support PG versus MATURE content

VWR-3153 Searching events by keywords (with new search but better without)

VWR-3535 Get Rid of Search Box Annoyances

VWR-272 Make search and other dialogs sizeable

MISC-1907 Traffic should not be, by default, the main issue deciding where in the place search a certain location ranks. Alternative suggested

MISC-827 Be able to distinguish between PG and Mature in searches

VWR-11948 Search -> All Click to Teleport on Item List

VWR-12342 "Search" for people really broken logic

~~VWR-3725~~ Please add resize option to the SEARCH window UI

~~SVC-86~~ Support AND, OR, NOT etc in Search

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This is a meta-issue for all issues relating to the new search feature, including design, implementation, user-interface, policy, and features.

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Rob Linden added a comment - 01/Dec/07 12:22 PM

Added "search" component

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Xi Taurog added a comment - 08/Dec/07 07:48 AM

Linking to my issue - ~~VWR-3755~~ - with search box becoming unchecked on items set for sale when someone buys a copy of/ contents of the item while I am offline.

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Lindal Kidd added a comment - 05/Jan/08 05:29 PM

This meta-issue seems the best place for my comment: The new Search feature is much, much worse than the old Search (which was bad enough!) Under the new system, it's almost impossible to find anything useful, unless you already know its exact name. Try, for example, searching for "Freebies"...you'll get lots of results, but where are popular freebie stores such as The Free Dove?

Search is an essential tool for a service like Second Life. If it doesn't work, there will be a great many frustrated users. As a Mentor, I'm already seeing newcomers at the Welcome Areas wondering "What is there to do around here?". They are unable to find any of the really great places in SL, because the new Search DOES NOT WORK.

I recommend reverting to the OLD Search immediately, as a quick band-aid fix to the problem. If it takes as long to "fix" the new Search as it did to "fix" the old one, Second Life is going to lose a great many new residents who are simply unable to find the things that are here.

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Cristalle Karami added a comment - 08/Jan/08 06:59 PM

The problem is, Lindal, that it requires everyone to do a measure of gaming in order to be found. Freebies is not in the title; it only occurs once in a very short description. Although, if search did some kind of check based on objects on the land, it would see overwhelmingly that the items are free, but the objects are not coordinated to identify themselves as freebies in their descriptions, for the most part.

But if you search for "free" they are #4 - because many of their objects use the word "free." You have to pick your keyword and run with it. The system isn't telepathic, and it can't be. Like it or not, we all need to optimize our parcel descriptions to be found in search. Being terse doesn't help.

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Haravikk Mistral added a comment - 21/Jan/08 07:13 AM

Added SVC-1230 and SVC-1231 which are issues for bugs relating to plural words and words separated by slashes respectively.

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Web Magic added a comment - 21/Sep/08 10:47 AM

Search for plural and I am at the top, search for singular and I am no where - makes no sense.

I own a vehicle store with mostly helicopters. At first I listed helicopters as I assumed helicopter would be identified as the root word of the plural version. This is not the case. While my store is on the first page of search results for helicopters - plural, I am no where to be found for helicopter singular. This makes no sense. At any rate, I have since added the singular term, but still, this is an important search issue. Obviously if you are top for helicopters, you should be top for helicopter, again, makes no sense. Thanks,

Web Magic

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Argent Stonecutter added a comment - 11/Nov/08 04:05 PM

Almost no systems will make the singular out of the plural. Always list the singular.