Comment on Shopping website search is terrible
Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month agoBecause we humans are very bad at putting in an accurate search such as: name:“60w” and description:“standby”.
I actually really like to do that. These days that only seems to work for flights and hentai though.
Maybe if it was more available and people were taught to use it it could be a little more popular. I think fundamentally it’s not such a foreign concept to say that you want specific things from specific categories. People do that kind of thinking routinely when searching for homes or cars.
Carighan@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Oh I don’t disagree. When I worked in this stuff we usually snuck in that if you put in valid search query syntax (I think it was all Lucene based) then it got used as is. Was nice for us devs to debug shit.
Of course, anything else for used for a weighted fuzzy everything search, and the customers were always take happy with that (customers being the store owners). 🤷