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~p3rsh1ng Dec 11, 2012

Odd stuff often happens. When searching on DA there also appears deviations that are absolutely unrelated to what I seek just because the search engine has found that word in authors comment. Example:

When searching for dishonored i got this [link]

Its Homestuck fanart but there is word dishonored in the author comment so the engine found it even though its totally unrelated to the awesome game by Bethesda.

My suggestion is - disable fulltext search and search only for keywords. You have to enter those anyway when submitting a deviation.

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~Oberst-Von-Grobel Dec 14, 2012

Ah haz ideer:

1. Let us choose between full text, title, tag, and artist name searches
2. Let us see the bloody tags! I've gotten art utterly unrelated to what I wanted because of those bloody things.

~p3rsh1ng Dec 15, 2012

Well artist name search already exists. You just add by:artistname into the dialog and it searches only for stuff by that artist. For your art it is by

berst-von-grobel

Tags are a good idea. We ll see if the management does something about this.

~Oberst-Von-Grobel Dec 15, 2012

As I see it, the artist's name could be an auto-tag of some sort or another, and you can choose what you want DASearch to check for. Might make it handy when you only partially remember the name of an artist.

~siantjudas Dec 11, 2012 Digital Artist

And you've never gotten an unrelated result when using google? It happens.

~p3rsh1ng Dec 12, 2012

But google searches the whole internet. No matter how large DA is, compared to the whole thing its tinier than an electron to Solar system.

BTW I dont use google for endless browsing. Usually the first results are the most relevant. The further you browse the more useless scrap you find.

~siantjudas Dec 12, 2012 Digital Artist

The point is that irrelevant results occur in any search.

~p3rsh1ng Dec 14, 2012

And thus they should do something about it

dont u agree?

~siantjudas Dec 16, 2012 Digital Artist

Google is the most advanced search engine in the world, if they have irrelevant results, then I can forgive DA for it considering they have nowhere near the team to develop an equivalent algorithm, nor the resources to pay for one. Maybe you should use better search terms.

*Peccantis Dec 12, 2012 General Artist

But reducing the irrelevant results would still be nice.

~siantjudas Dec 12, 2012 Digital Artist

Sure, but I really don't think that that's the way to do it. The description in a deviation is also relevant to the image.

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