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Searches need word boundaries. E.g. searching for “C” should not list all jobs where “C” is part of another word.

Open bruceleerabbit opened this issue 2 years ago • 1 comments

If you search for “C”, a listing that contains “GCP” (or any word containing a «c» regardless of case) will be in the results. If you search for “Ada”, there is not a single job that involves Ada, but many jobs that call for candidates who are “ADAptable”.

The typical problem is that searching for “Ada” on most job sites results in listings that mention:

  • American Disabilities Act
  • American Dental Association
  • Australian Disability Association?

Which are due to all job search engines being case insensitive. FOSSjobs is even worse because it’s not even using word boundaries. If grep is used, a search for “C” should have a query of “\<C\>”, and it shouldn’t necessarily be grep -i.

bruceleerabbit avatar Oct 13 '22 09:10 bruceleerabbit

Duplicate of #56 :) Network issues perhaps?

waldyrious avatar Oct 13 '22 16:10 waldyrious

Not sure how that happened. I recall it was just one click to submit but it created two dupe issues in the same click.

bruceleerabbit avatar Dec 07 '22 23:12 bruceleerabbit