Sorting search results

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Hello.

 

Is it just me, or in every single search the coin I'm looking for is always at the very end of the list?

If “united states” is specified in the search query, the results will without fail present a completely different country at the top.

 

Is searching so complex that this seemingly trivial issue has not been fixed in the almost two decades of this site's existence?  

What do you mean with “united states” specified, because those two words specify very little? Did you select the USA in the issuer field or did just put ‘united states’ in the general search field and expect only USA hits? If the former gets hits other then USA it's a bug, if it's the later it's quite strange to expect that result, it's normal alphabetical sorting behaviour. You get hits from any page that contain your search terms then they are given out  sorted by issuer alphabetically. And guess what … U is quite near the end of the alphabet.

 

If your search queries are too long you usually add more information or filters to reduce the hits to stuff that actually interests you. Like if it's from a specific country and you don't want to endlessly scroll, select the right issuer, if you search for a silver or a copper alloy coin, select the material ‘silver’ or ‘non-precious’ so you get less false positives.

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?

The “simple” search checks everywhere so the hits are generous.

For the 1st query the Peso contains all the search terms

The 2nd one I also find no obvious reason. I thought for Brazil it could have been the issuer United States of Brazil but that came after.

The Japanese Hakodate-tsūhō also doesn't contain the search terms, the nearest is the word USA in the comments which might have a equal value to United States like in the issuer  somewhere but that feels like a stretch.

 

The 3rd query is like the first they have Peru either as a comment or mint etc.

 

The 4th, yes all of the UK colonies were put together so you will get extremely many hits with a generic search.

 

The 2nd search is to most illogical as I can see nothing abvious why these pages came up. 

But also to be honest, most if not all your issues would be solved if you would simply select the issuer and not keep it on ‘all’.

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