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Hypothesis search does not include page title
Steps to reproduce
- Use Hypothesis Chrome extension to add a page note to a page
- Search Hypothesis for a keyword included in the title of the page you just annotated (https://hypothes.is/users/
?q= )
Expected behaviour
Hypothesis finds the page you just annotated
Actual behaviour
No results
Browser/system information
OS: Debian, kernel .10.19-1 Browser: Google Chrome 90.0.4430.93 (Official Build) (64-bit)
Additional details
It seems Hypothesis does match the URL, why not also match the title?
It seems Hypothesis does match the URL, why not also match the title?
From a product perspective this is just a feature we haven't built yet.
The answer on a technical level is that currently the search feature only searches through the contents and properties of annotations, not the documents on which the annotations were made. The document URL is considered a part of the annotation's metadata whereas the title, and any other machine-readable metadata on the page or PDF, are not. Document metadata can change over time independently of the annotations on it, so we'd need to find some reasonable way to handle that.
