Anyone hazard a guess why searching for “wb.camra.org.uk” doesn’t find any posts when that text is most certainly in a post. Whereas a search for “wb.camra” does work.
Kind of proving the text does exist as I asked the same question in our own support category:
I would say searching for website addresses is a pretty common requirement as it’s a unique identifier. And yes, it is now repeatable on here. I think people would complain if searching for www.bbc.co.uk didn’t work on Google.
Maybe somebody who knows how the search engine works could comment on what Discourse is doing with the search string? Is it getting processed so that it’s not searching on what one types?
Later… and yes, having included www.bbc.co.uk in this message, Discourse is unable to find it.
searching for camra.org seems to work OK. As does camra.
As to what bits of Postgres innards don’t like camra.org.uk and wb.camra.org and wb.camra.org.uk I can’t say. There is a reason there are tens of thousands of people working at Google, and literally nobody uses Bing even though it air-quotes “works”
Although the file app/models/search_observer.rb doesn’t seem to exist in the current version of the code I assume those fixes are still in there somewhere…