theBearJewFor search, given Ive only done one search but just posting my thoughts on browser vs app. In the app it appears to post the most recent posts with the words used. I searched "Fantasy Football" because I figured it was specific enough and recent enough that my most recent thread for the NS league should come up. Which it did in the app, maybe the 5th option? The ones before it were threads that just had variations of the words fantasy and football but nothing related to FFB. So it worked better than the browser but still doesnt appear to be knowing what the user is searching for.
Compared to in the browser it shows a bunch of threads about FFB but nothing that is recent. So it knows what Im looking for but has no recent threads.
Ill keep searching but FFB was the first thing I could remember that would be recent and specific enough.
It certainly has limitations still - big ones. I'd call the old search a -10 out of 10, whereas this new thing is maybe 4 on 10.
Interpreting what the user wants is difficult, but we're onto something which just might work somewhat. We'll never be able to beat Google, but in-app you can't google search so early on in this process we realized we needed to make some drastic moves on Search.
Try to just use it naturally.... as in don't be scared to search if you want to find something. At least when you're in the app, there's a chance you might actually find it.
Please keep posting findings, we're also logging all the search terms that go in so we can better study what people are looking for.
