I was trying to pull up the 60 Minutes piece on how none of the politicians were discussing the looming crisis with the national debt, so I put in "Ron Paul 60 Minutes". I got back 23 pages of hits. After scrolling through 5 pages I gave up and tried 60 Minutes and Ron Paul seperately with similar results. When I clicked over to Youtube "60 Minutes" brought it up as the first video. I don't remember the search feature being that spotty in the past. What gives?
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if I do NOT use double quotes ("), i would expect the search to return as first results the ones (if any) that would appear if I would've put them, and THEN the other ones.
i.e. try to write dick in a box in the search box. the video of dick in a box appears in second page! obviously if you put the quotes it's first and only result. I'd expect to get it as first even if I do not put the quotes, followed by eventually other relevant results.
I guess it requires two queries instead of one, so maybe it's been omitted because of that, but now knowing this software I'm not sure.
lucky I'm curious could you explain me this? if you don't fix it it's ok, but please satisfy my curiosity
and a double thanks for the quality.
The technical reason for any quirkiness of the search feature is it's just how the database functions. Unfortunately, there's no possible way for us to sort search results according to the contents of the search query. Not the most ideal situation, but perhaps eventually we'll have a better alternative.