Search

~Linio Jan 9, 2013

Hi all!

I'm trying to understand how the search engine works, and failing miserabily. I'm guessing the search function is not exactly a key feature of the website, but since it's implemented, at least it could work better.

I'm searching for example for a picture of a merchant, hence, typing "Merchant" in the search box, and putting the category 'Fantasy'. First images coming up are indeed merchant, and titled as such, but quickly i'm having weird pictures coming up, and i'm not exactly comprehending why they actually are in the result, for example :

[link]
[link]

And after those i'm seeing again pictures named Merchant who actually are the kind of pictures i'm looking for : What gives?

Beautiful images for sure, but definitely not what i'm searching. Since deviations named merchants are already of a wise variety, why include others not relevant at all?

Of course this goes for a lot of other things (I also searched for "Shield" and was in for a treat).

Is there any way that the search could be better? Also, any way to have more possibilies for the search, like exclusions, terms, etc (because for the shield example i had about 9 out of 10 deviations being Zelda's Shield. Again, not judging, but not what i was expecting).

Apart for this little thing, still a very nice place to be!

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Devious Comments

~Linio Jan 9, 2013

Would it be possible to have the search searching only in title then??

$kojik1010 Jan 10, 2013

For deviations, instead of searching with a term, try searching with

title:term

e.g. [link]

Similarly, in order to search for deviations whose description/keywords contain the term, use

description:term

keywords:term

Here are a few more:

For deviations,

attribute:print to find art that's available for print

For groups,

name:term

tagline:term

description:term

For forum threads,

subject:term

body:term

status:open to only find open threads

status:closed to only find closed threads

FYI, these are subject to change as we try to improve the search engine.

~LateStarter63 Mar 8, 2013 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

This information on searching title, tags and description is just what I was looking for - I had always been frustrated by the lumping of all three together in searches, bring up irrelevant results. A great improvement.