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  2. AI-710

Search results are unsatisfying - no google-style search provided

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      Example: into the search mask, enter parts of a word which occurs in pages. No result found.

      Work-around: Add wild char to the end.

      User is unhappy with this answer because this tool behavior is not state of the art. Google search is much smarter.

      Related observation: the help screen says that multiple * or * at the beginning would work, but when starting a search term with a *, nothing is found.

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            [AI-710] Search results are unsatisfying - no google-style search provided

            Owen Wallis added a comment -

            Hi all, as a result of the improvements we've made to Confluence search over the past year (including semantic search) we've tested and believe this ticket is now fixed

            Owen Wallis added a comment - Hi all, as a result of the improvements we've made to Confluence search over the past year (including semantic search) we've tested and believe this ticket is now fixed

            Fanny Tastet added a comment -

            Another exemple that can be related to this issue.. sometimes I don't find relevant answers for my search, and then, I simply invert 2 words in the search, and I can find the relevant pages ! Well... I can't honestly tell my users to try different word combinations in order to find the right answer

            Fanny Tastet added a comment - Another exemple that can be related to this issue.. sometimes I don't find relevant answers for my search, and then, I simply invert 2 words in the search, and I can find the relevant pages ! Well... I can't honestly tell my users to try different word combinations in order to find the right answer

            Nathan Lucky added a comment -

            Also quite upset by the limitation. You cannot search in quotes since not all characters are preserved. Ie, spaces, punctuation, etc. So exact term searching is useless.

            Nathan Lucky added a comment - Also quite upset by the limitation. You cannot search in quotes since not all characters are preserved. Ie, spaces, punctuation, etc. So exact term searching is useless.

            Hans-Peter Geier added a comment - - edited

            another example. Imagine some pages contain the script name "myscript.bat".

            When searching for "myscript" , no search results are found. User needs to type either "myscript*" or "myscript.bat".
            Why does "myscript" not find the exact match? Seems none-alphanumeric characters are not necessarily treated as word boundaries.

            Hans-Peter Geier added a comment - - edited another example. Imagine some pages contain the script name "myscript.bat". When searching for "myscript" , no search results are found. User needs to type either "myscript*" or "myscript.bat". Why does "myscript" not find the exact match? Seems none-alphanumeric characters are not necessarily treated as word boundaries.

              owallis@atlassian.com Owen Wallis
              05877970a3e6 Hans-Peter Geier
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