Search Results seem odd

minipost Posted: Submitted by bloo on Sun, 2006-09-03 06:02.
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I searched for "plasmaworm" from the main page. I expected to go directly to the Plasmaworm 'home' page, but got a list of results - which is fair enough I guess. But the top result is a link to a post or comment about it, rather than the game itself. The page I was looking is two links down.

And there is no indication of what a search result is. It could be a comment, a forum post, or a game 'home' page.

I hesitate to test this myself, but might not a forum post of "" repeated over and over, be the top result for any search?

 
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minipost Posted: Sun, 2006-09-03 08:09
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And there is no indication of what a search result is. It could be a comment, a forum post, or a game 'home' page.

There is one actually, first thing in the line with the comments & date.

However I agree that the search engine is not the best it could be.. It's weird to even have singles images returned when you search a specific game name; but why not. The only thing really required, I think, is to sort the results by category, putting games first, and clearly separating games from forum posts from images etc, like this :

-------------------
GAMES :

- Result 1
- Result 2
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VOICE OF THE MASSES :

- Result 1
- Result 2
-------------------
IMAGES :
etc..

But anyway, I think they have not yet started working on that part of the website :) Search engine does work fine, they'll improve the cosmetics later.

 
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