Too extensive search results
The search mechanics should be improved. At the moment it shows too much results.
Possible improvements:
- at the moment when entering several search terms they are ORed. We could implicitly AND them instead.
- alternatively we could require the user to use
+
explicitly to perform an AND, e.g.+DMX +knowledge
- alternatively we could require the user to use
- at the moment the search term (or if there are several the last one) is regarded a word begin. While typing, even for one or two letter "words" a search request might be send.
- we could ignore search terms below a certain limit, e.g. only start search if at least 3 characters are entered (resp. if there are several search terms ignore those with less than 3 characters)
- we could regard all search terms complete words (instead of word begins), and require the user to use
*
explicitly to perform a word begin search, e.g.soft*
There are a lot of possibilities and to me it's not yet clear where to go.
What do you think?