Improoving LC Forum Search algo - in sequence ?
Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2021 3:33 am
Since forum is as usefull as Documentation, I posted here
Hi Team,
I'm wondering if LC forum search online could not improove its search Algorythm...its been a while since this keeps comming back to my mind.
The following happened again just today....
From my mobile I was looking for topics on contact apps, so typed in : which google returned me an intersting Topic, from the LC forum.
(PC being more practical for reading, I usely send the message to Telegram and click again when on PC.)
but since the Google 2 words only search was efficient to return the Forum page.. when facing my monitor I just typed in the same 2 words in the Forum page that was already opened...
Since it returned many pages - 68!! - but not the Topic named "How to access build in contact app" in the top firsts...
I just started to include more KEY words :..
no better results in first page !
So I decided to type in the whole Topic Title in the exact same way it was displayed on my mobile phone:
and again...my Topic Title cant make it in the Top results not even at the botom of the first page / 5 pages
I decided to chang symbol - for + since it sometimes affect search results ...but no better.
So my question is :
so that it :
>>> prioritize any sequences of 2 or more words in the strict same order ???
(and then..in an inversed or mix order)
i.e typing
or
should logicaly be returning "ANY" Topic Titles containing those same words as "How to access build+in contact app"..and similar among the top results, nop ?
One usually input SEARCH criterias with 2 or 3 words...
- and then include more words or other ones to reduce the number of answers returned .
-or lean towards similar possible topics.
..and if not satified.. finaly "goes for Google search"
I Know LC has some pretty good search features included in its language - though the Forum is likely not built using LC.
Indexing the Title Column should be included, if not already, but the search algo still needs some efforts !
Else, I find the Simple Search text very poor as for the previous search example,
I guess 90% of the time it is just useless to me by returning too vague results.
Which I beleive by being "more strict" it could return more relevant Topics and waste less resources at the end !
.
(the Advanced search is as inefficient as far as I tested it with the same sequence ..and + or not +
*it still returned 5 pages and the Wanted Topic is still not in the first one...
How about using some A.I ?
I Dont know what is on the road for this improovment...but I find it a key gamer to all !
Thanks for reading ! Sorry for crying !
Hi Team,
I'm wondering if LC forum search online could not improove its search Algorythm...its been a while since this keeps comming back to my mind.
The following happened again just today....
From my mobile I was looking for topics on contact apps, so typed in :
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"livecode contact"
(PC being more practical for reading, I usely send the message to Telegram and click again when on PC.)
but since the Google 2 words only search was efficient to return the Forum page.. when facing my monitor I just typed in the same 2 words in the Forum page that was already opened...
Since it returned many pages - 68!! - but not the Topic named "How to access build in contact app" in the top firsts...
I just started to include more KEY words :
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access build+in contact.
no better results in first page !
So I decided to type in the whole Topic Title in the exact same way it was displayed on my mobile phone:
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"How to access build-in contact app"
I decided to chang symbol - for + since it sometimes affect search results ...but no better.
So my question is :
can't LC modify its Forum Search Algorithm
so that it :
>>> prioritize any sequences of 2 or more words in the strict same order ???
(and then..in an inversed or mix order)
i.e typing
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contact build-in"
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"contact build+in access"
One usually input SEARCH criterias with 2 or 3 words...
- and then include more words or other ones to reduce the number of answers returned .
-or lean towards similar possible topics.
..and if not satified.. finaly "goes for Google search"
I Know LC has some pretty good search features included in its language - though the Forum is likely not built using LC.
Indexing the Title Column should be included, if not already, but the search algo still needs some efforts !
Else, I find the Simple Search text very poor as for the previous search example,
I guess 90% of the time it is just useless to me by returning too vague results.
Which I beleive by being "more strict" it could return more relevant Topics and waste less resources at the end !
.
(the Advanced search is as inefficient as far as I tested it with the same sequence ..and + or not +
*it still returned 5 pages and the Wanted Topic is still not in the first one...
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+access+build+in+contact
I Dont know what is on the road for this improovment...but I find it a key gamer to all !
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"+my+2+cents"