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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon flathub-infra

search is missing results

Open oilian opened this issue 4 years ago • 5 comments

I was searching for the app "Flameshot" on flathub.org. However when I searched for "Flame", I got several apps, but not "Flameshot". Flameshot only showed up when searching for "Flamesho" or the whole app name.

This limits finding applications when only knowing part of the app name.

oilian avatar Feb 10 '21 10:02 oilian

I think this issue should be split up into two:

  1. Sometimes even searching for the app's exact name does not turn up the app. For example, searching for "0 A.D." (the exact name of this game on Flathub) returns no results.
  2. It'd be good to use fuzzy search to get results for inexact matches. E.g. it'd be great if searching for "0 AD" also turned up the aforementioned game, or if searching for "FOSS triangulator" showed the FOSStriangulator app.

12people avatar Apr 13 '21 11:04 12people

I agree, at the moment this is a very obvious limitation for finding applications.

haggen88 avatar Apr 20 '21 20:04 haggen88

When searching "ncurses", I got all the results of the database. When searching "console", I got a limited set but wrong.

It's better to have: "No result found" and not overload the servers.

hotlittlewhitedog avatar Feb 04 '22 14:02 hotlittlewhitedog

The new page gives 0 entries for ncurses and 25 for console, would that be what you expect? https://flathub.vercel.app/apps/search/console

razzeee avatar Feb 04 '22 20:02 razzeee

Yep, seems really better :) 👍

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