In the past couple of days I felt pretty satisfied with the search functionality in the desktop app. This is where I was doing most of the work and using the material in AT as a reference. There were no annoyances, missing pages, etc. The search was mainly spot on and has identified related links.
So, I’d like to say thank you to the team for definitely working on this! We can also notice less comments in the “complaints thread”.
The effort and the functionality is much appreciated!
While I can’t definitely say if any search terms were missed, considering that this is my knowledge base, I don’t have a feeling that things were missing from the results. Which was definitely the case in the past couple of weeks, where pages would disappear from search results, or would not be found, etc. But, over the last weekend and the past couple of days I was extremely busy with setting up a server and was using my materials as references. I literally not once felt that the search sucks and, in hindsight, I have to say it is such a great feeling to have!
I still don’t find 37c3 when I search for c3
I also don’t find anything “cloudflare” when I search for “flare”
I also don’t find “Barrierefreiheit” when I search for “freiheit”
It seems that I have to know how words and phrases start. Otherwise I don’t find anything.
I agree that a great improvement in finding information in AT in general would be to do either a fuzzy search or, even better, a semantic search. Would this be an instant turn off for some people, as soon as someone mentions “AI”, I don’t know. But it would be a fantastic experience to have it link information in the space automagically.
