Phaz42

For anyone already involved in this thread, or coming across it in some other way: I made a suggestion to improve the search feature (specifically to address this issue) on the Nexus Feedback site: https://feedback.nexusmods.com/posts/1053/default-search-should-search-brief-overview It's starting to gain some traction, but some more votes could probably help to get this noticed more and perhaps higher on the priority list. So if you care about this, and agree with the suggestion, please give it a vote! Thanks.

Yeah, this was not meant as an optimized example. :smile: But you can definitely create something similar that still performs well. Millions of websites do that. Yeah, I totally agree this is far from ideal, and looks bad. But like you also found out, if we don't add extra words to the mod title they are very hard to find. So this was kind of an experiment to test if this would work. And it did, and so I posted this topic. :smile: I'm definitely going to take this into account when creating new mods and deciding the name. But when I released this mod I did not know of that issue yet and I don't want to rename the mod now, so I added tags in the title. Ok, I will take a look over there.

Yes, but as I said, this design is far from optimal. It's a very "web 1.0" approach with a "complicated" form to search specific attributes. This is fine as an advanced option but the default search could easily return far better results. You already have all the information in your database, indexed and searchable. You just should make it way easier to get to those results. Google doesn't ask you to specifically search website titles, or description, or contents, right? You just enter a query and it shows you the result. How difficult can it be to generate a query like: SELECT mod FROM mods WHERE title LIKE `%horse%` OR description LIKE `%horse%` OR author LIKE `%horse%` OR tags LIKE `%horse%`Instead of: SELECT mod FROM mods WHERE title LIKE `%horse%` So my question is to get this improved. Please seriously try to get this changed! :)

Hi. I've recently renamed my mod "Obedient Steed" to "Obedient Steed (TAGS - horse obstacles speed limit)", because it was very hard to find. The only way was to literally search for the word "obedient" or "steed", which isn't very likely. Now, you could say I named my mod wrong in the first place, but all of the words I've added to the title now, were already in the "Brief overview" field, but it looks like this field is completely ignored while searching. Looking a little bit further, I also see that searching for a mod author's name does not work and even searching for a tag used in the mod does nothing! Why is this search so limited?! I'm pretty sure there are many, many, mods that are just very difficult to find because of this. Unless you add words/tags to the mod title, like I did now. But that can't really be what you want, right? So please improve the search function. In my opinion, the default search (without having to use an advanced form or something like that) should at least search in the: title, author, uploader, brief description and tags. I think this would result in much more mods being found, and in return more page views generated. :)