Posted: 11/7/2006 11:08 PM
Post subject: The search page
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Warp
Banned User, Former player
Joined: 3/10/2004
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Location: Finland
Couldn't find the original announcement of the search functionality of the site, so I started a new topic. A small note: The search page still uses the old "nesvideos" name. Anyways, my complaint is still that the search results are not ordered by relevancy. When someone makes a search, by far the most probable thing he is searching is a movie for a game. Currently, if you search eg. for "super mario", the first search result which is a movie is the 19th result, which is the "SNES Super Mario RPG" movie. The first 5 results are trick pages (more unlikely to be a searched thing), and the next 13 results are submission pages (very unlikely to be what the user wanted). After the first movie hit, 25 submission hits follow before a second movie hit is given (SNES Super Mario World). If what I was searching was the SMB1 movie, it would be on page 3, result number 49. The search results would be *much* improved with a simple sorting: Show published movies first, then articles (such as trick pages), then submissions. That's it. With that change, the SMB1 movie would have been the third result in the first page, very easy to spot. Given that all published movie page names start with a "[", all submissions with a "#" and the articles with something else, I wouldn't think it would be so hard to sort according to those.