Hello. Apologies if this has been addressed before, but I didn’t see anything when looking in previous discussion or support.
For non-CMS, calendar only, are there any options to improve the front-end event search on the main page? Our dev team confirmed that regular expressions containing word boundaries like “\bAI\b” do not work in the main front-end search box but do work if you specify them in the widget configurations.
For example, if we search for “AI” the results pulled over 35 events, but only one event was truly an AI related event (first image.) The other events were just a result of a hard string finding “ai” (second image) within.
Thanks Lanny – as far as I’m aware LiveWhale uses the same search logic behind the scenes for calendar and widgets, but it can be tricky to hit just right especially with how MySQL handles weighting of very short queries like “ai”. If I’m not mistaken certain logic only affects 3-character-strings and longer, but I’ll check with the team and see if we can make any suggestions here or add something to an upcoming release to improve the findability of those AI events.
Hello Karl,
I noticed in the upcoming 2.20.1 release, the improvement of “Improved search page performance by adjusting the handling of exact phrases and by improved segmentation of search index data by content type.” Is that addressing this issue, to perhaps a 2-character string? Or is the release improvement something entirely different?
