Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25246763-20161105200223/@comment-24473195-20161115173937

Sannse wrote: Have a look at the more recent technical update here. There's been some work on this that will be released later this week.

Once it's live, please let us know how it works for you, and what problems you still see. Thanks! Maybe they fixed a separate problem, as this update is live. I guess that in some situations certain characters resulted in 0 search results, and that's improved.

The problem is exactly as described on the opening post. One would expect that searching for "sanatatea romania" -> "Sănătatea în România". But it doesn't show up on the first search results page. Searching for "sanatatea in romania" on the other hand has better results.

A much worst problem is that searching for incomplete words yields 0 results, and it seems like this is a limitation of the search engine or more likely wikia's incomplete implementation of it, examples:


 * http://pt.duolingo.wikia.com/wiki/Especial:Pesquisar?query=Introdu (no results)
 * http://pt.duolingo.wikia.com/wiki/Especial:Pesquisar? search=Introducao&fulltext=Search&ns0=1&ns14=1# (found)
 * http://dev.wikia.com/wiki/Special:Search?search=sweep&fulltext=Search&ns0=1&ns14=1# (no results)
 * http://dev.wikia.com/wiki/Special:Search?search=sweeper&fulltext=Search&ns0=1&ns14=1# (found)