What's with the search function?

[marcia2]

In the Home Cooking board I searched "cold soup" not cold soup, but "cold soup" with the quotation marks. In any sensible search system (including the old site), that would give me only posts with the phrase "cold soup" in it. Instead, I got 467 threads, each of which, somewhere, in the original post or the replies, had either the word cold OR the word soup in it. I guess I'll go elsewhere to try to find a good cold soup recipe.

[Robert Lauriston]

The "cold soup" bug seems to be fixed now.

Any pointers to the search syntax?

[PayOrPlay]

>The "cold soup" bug seems to be fixed now.

--Not for me, unfortunately. Is it still working for you?

[Robert Lauriston]

Doing some research, it seems like the search engine (Solr, which extends Lucene) is supposed to handle quotes like Google does, so this is just a bug.

http://lucene.apache.org/java/docs/qu...

[Robert Lauriston]

I agree, some simple documentation on the search would be helpful. There's no way to know whether it's working properly if we don't know the syntax.

[FelafelBoy]

It would also be helpful once all the "bugs" are worked out, for there to be a "guide" for instructions for the searching format to be used on Chowhound.com. Some search engines allow for Boolean logic symbols (+, -, or, and), while others just accept quotation marks to indicate inclusion of all terms.

But so far, the search field is helping me to pull up threads easier. It replaces the prior format of viewing all threads on one page. I could make an arguement for both cases. The older format allowed for easier one glance viewing of threads, but was unwieldly in the way hundreds, if not more, of threads were displayed on one endlessly long page.

[tuskless]

It would be convenient, though, to have an option to view only the posts in a given thread that are relevant to the search. Long threads require a double search - once using the search tool for the thread, and once using the Ctrl-F way for occurences of the search terms in the thread.

[The Chowhound Team]

We are aware of this issue and it has been reported to the software developers.