in reply to Question about search results.

What I find weird is when I type the word "jpeg" in search box, it brings up this page: https://perlmonks.com/?node=jpeg instead of search results for the word jpeg. When I enter the word jpg, it acts normally and shows the list as expected. I have experienced this weird behavior with other words as well, but I can't remember which ones.

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Re^2: Question about search results.
by LanX (Saint) on Jan 05, 2024 at 02:25 UTC
    You are talking about the "search" box at the upper left corner, the thread is about super search

    But yeah, this box does ?node=whatsoever and if there is no node 'whatsoever', it'll delegate to super search.

    One could argue to rename it to "find node" ...

    FWIW: ?node=whatever exists :)

    Cheers Rolf
    (addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
    see Wikisyntax for the Monastery

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Re^2: Question about search results.
by hippo (Archbishop) on Jan 05, 2024 at 10:03 UTC

    It sounds like you still haven't read the FAQ. If you had, you probably wouldn't find it so weird.

    🦛

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