Here's an example:
https://en.numista.com/catalogue/index.php?r=1958+united+states+dollar
Second result is “Dominican Republic Peso oro” - how does that even come up with my search query?
The actual US dollar is all the way at the bottom.
here's another:
https://en.numista.com/catalogue/index.php?r=1855+united+states+gold
Results are Brazil Real followed by Japan - Japanese feudal domains, an iron coin… Gold dollars are again the last thing in the list. They should be at the top as most closely matching the search query. I thought maybe the page for the Japanese coin has words “united states” and “gold” somewhere in it, but no, no mention of “united states”. The only thing in common is the year. But then why doesn't the search return ALL coins that fall within 1855?
Slightly simpler:
https://en.numista.com/catalogue/index.php?r=peru+gold
Results are Cuba, Fiji, Jamaica, Niger, Paraguay, then finaly Peru.
Like ok, they're alphabetical. But the included results make no sense to me. I'm searching for Peru, why isn't that at the top?
Here's a really bad one:
https://en.numista.com/catalogue/index.php?r=united+kingdom+sovereign
To get to actual sovereigns you may as well just click to page 8 of search results. All UK colonies and dependencies are included with the actual UK being alphabetically at the end? This is logical? First page has a copper German coin of Leopold Eberhard. What relation to UK or sovereigns does that coin even have?
Can't the search feature be made to work like pretty much any other search engine and return results based on how closely they match the search string?