There is Something Wrong With the Search Tool

submitted by raven9 from self.SaidIt

Go to the All Subs page and search for "covid". It returns 7 results. I know after 2 years of this pandemic there are more than 7 posts about it. I have posted several myself.

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[–]package 5 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Adjust the date range or sorting criteria. The observed behavior is almost certainly due to the backend asking for N results, grouping those results and then taking the top item from each. So for example if it wanted to show a limit of 20 top results of all time, but 19/20 of those results are from the same month, only 2 results would be returned. There’s likely additional or different criteria that affect the grouping, but in general that behavior is probably the issue.

[–]magnora7 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

the search is... not great. Until it's fixed try googling or duckduckgo and adding "site:saidit.net" to your search

[–]Tiwaking 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Searching for "Holocough" also returns 7 results ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

[–]filbs111 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

It's been like this for a while. See https://saidit.net/s/SaidIt/comments/8gw7/saidit_search_is_broken/vfi5

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

probably costs them too much for the server if the search works. Trolls can keep spamming searches which then slows down sites like this

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

It's not a bug it's a feature.

[–]yabbit 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I searched up your mother getting fucked by niggers and got ten thousand results seems to be working fine.