I’m having a few difficulties with the search functionality today. We have an automated process we creates topics based on a lecture from a course, an example may be; About ‘Implementing Health & Damage’ I found myself wanting to reduces the maximum number of characters for a topic length and d…

Yes, I believe these are “stop” words — see: [image] No search results are shown for stopwords Support Those are “stop” words Stop words are words that are very common, appear in almost every document, and have no discrimination value. Therefore, they…

Hi Kris, Thanks for the reply. Yeah, I thought as much. It’s a pain on this occasion as in this specific case the word does have value. I guess using DataExplorer wouldn’t get around this either? Update Actually, via DataExplorer it works. I guess a full text search isn’t carried out when qu…

I just ran into this myself. It’s… extremely annoying. Any update, is there a way to change this now? “About” really should not be a filtered word for search! Here’s how I ran into it here on Meta: I was in the Plugins category and noticed that some plugin topics auto-delete replies, and others don…

I’m also surprised “about” is on the current Postgres stopword list, but here it is: src/backend/snowball/stopwords/english.stop master i me my myself we our ours ourselves you your yours yourself yourselves he him his himself she her hers This file has been truncated. sh…

Thanks Jeff, I didn’t know you could search for pinned topics. Always something cool and new to discover in Discourse features. :smiley: But… any thoughts on warning the poor user who is searching and finding nothing even when they know there should be results? Now I see the full list, it really is…

It is a good idea to issue a warning if your search is all stopwords. How hard would that be to do @tgxworld ? We don’t want to hardcode the list, so we need a way to query postgres and tell us “are all these words stopwords?”

[image] codinghorror: How hard would that be to do @tgxworld ? We can return an extra column in our search query which can allow us to tell if the term consisted of only stop words which isn’t very hard to do. I’ll have to dig deeper to figure out where to inject that extra column though but …

Maybe if there are no search results, we run that check to see if the query is all stopwords? Then we only run an extra check when the results are poor anyway. Per the stopword list, if you search for “doing should now” for example. Worst case we could mirror the list and run the check server side,…

[image] codinghorror: Maybe if there are no search results, we run that check to see if the query is all stopwords? Yup kind of similar to what I meant with the extra column in the search results. If the search is empty, we look up the column to figure out if it is because all the terms are …

Are specific terms ignored from searches?

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Jagster (Jakke Flemming) October 14, 2024, 8:18pm 12

How are these stop words working in another languges? Translated ones are stopped too? Or just english ones when those on connected to some technical needs?

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