Search improvements and issues

further prioritize efforts / resources for better tuning of search results & for a result list displaying a) more relevant, b) more consistent, and c) more reliant & 'readable' results

the exact best way for weighing of different factors for search relevance can & should be discussed; as should be factors like regex search strings vs. exact word tokens (or the inclusion of subtleties like placeholders, wildcards etc.) ... though a lot has already been said & shared at different places :-)

but, overall this basic functions needs attention and improvement across the board.

some of the issues mentioned regularly:

• hits in titles are not weighed / prioritized well enough

• the weighing of factors (title – tags – body etc.) seems not transparent & often erratic / inconsistent

• there is a more general experience of inconsistency (some expected and known cases don´t end up in search; sometimes the results for two logically very close-by strings are jumpy, i.e. produce grossly different results; result lists vary in unexpected ways depending on search scope (global vs object vs collection), even if they shouldn´t in theory, etc.)

overall, the search should appear more relevant and trustworthy. and: this should be prioritized. as 'search' is one of the most basic, fundamental + important things one does, in any studio ;-)