Search behaves poorly

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1

Why does a search for “saveSetup” only return:

When

and

would also be good hits, at least.

2

On the old forum, we replaced the search form with a Google search. If the discourse search seems to be missing useful stuff, that’s an option. Personally, I tend to search Google with

site:pkp.sfu.ca

…since that’ll get results from the old forum and the wiki as well. I don’t use the Discourse search.

Cheers,
Alec

3

So then, what would it take to replace the Discourse search with the Google search?

4

Hi all,

Some relevant discussion, both on using the Google search and improving built-in search:
https://meta.discourse.org/t/frustrated-with-search-in-discourse/13064/5
(No conclusion in particular – just that we’re not alone in either consideration.)

Cheers,
Alec