Drupal.org search just...sucks.

Posted by deryck.henson on November 17, 2012 at 10:35am

Why is the search functionality on this site so useless? I just searched..."views"...and it's nowhere to be found. This was with "Modules" selected, and even the sub-category of "Views" was tried.

Then trying to sort by "Most Installed" instead of "Relevancy" (which was clearly misinformed), will revert back with no other option.

Maybe I'm just doing it wrong? And it's not just views. Searching "ctools" will result in the same long list of unintended (yet I'm sure useful) projects without Chaos Tools being listed. And ctools is even in the title.

Any assistance is very welcome.

PS - I know /project/views is how to get there. This situation was just very unexpected.

Comments

The search looks to be a

Posted by Jaypan on November 17, 2012 at 11:20am

The search looks to be a little broken right now actually. Forever, 'Most installed' was selected by default, which really made no sense, as people are almost always going to be searching for relevance. Now 'relevancy' is selected by default, which makes sense, and 'most installed' cannot even be selected (I kept getting redirected to 'relevancy'). So I have to wonder if the relevancy search actually is searching by relevancy, since as you say, it doesn't even find the views module when searching for views.

Jaypan We build websites

I too have been noticing this

Posted by trevorleenc on November 18, 2012 at 3:50am

I too have been noticing this for the past day or so...

Searching for things like CCK, views, pathauto and more result in less than desired search results. I've tried searching for other things this past couple of days too, and just never found what I was looking for, but in those other cases, just thought it was me and my vague search terms.

Thanks

Posted by deryck.henson on November 21, 2012 at 3:39am

Glad to know I'm not crazy. I'll submit a new issue then so this doesn't go unnoticed. It may even be one already (which I'll look for first).

Without me, it's just aweso.

I searched and could not find

Posted by YesCT on January 24, 2013 at 11:55pm

I searched and could not find an issue already for this problem.

I opened this issue: #1898258: Search switches to relevancy when try and use "most installed"
That should help alert people who can fix it, and also give people a place to follow the conversation if they are interested and/or want to help.

I opened an issue on this a

Posted by trevorleenc on January 28, 2013 at 7:51pm

I opened an issue on this a long while back here:

http://drupal.org/node/1863256

but I'm guessing by now that wasn't the right place...hopefully someone, somewhere will figure out what's what...

in the meantime - using google to search for modules and themes works almost just as good...

i am too, search has become

Posted by protools on January 25, 2013 at 12:27am

i am too, search has become very bad, I'm trying to find a simple module, and get wrong.

Where do we go to get this fixed

Posted by Kevin Morse on May 2, 2013 at 5:15am

Search is completely useless.

Forget Drupal 8 if the search function on drupal.org does not even work.

I came to make a new post

Posted by PetarB on May 2, 2013 at 5:20am

I came to make a new post about this.

I found this at the top of the forum.

Search is completely broken. I type in 'Display Suite' for modules for example - wow what kind of a result is that?!

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Agreed search seems to be

Posted by cdnsteve on May 14, 2013 at 3:02pm

Agreed search seems to be completely out of whack.
It doesn't have anything to do with Drupal 7, Drupal.org is powered by Apache Solr.
Even if you refine your search, to a module, type in: display suite

I get results that don't seem to make sense.

If I even refine it further, 7x modules. It still doesn't find it...