Question about search results.

[swampyankee]

I'm a trifle confused about my search results

 Found 0 nodes roughly between 2024-01-04 and 0 (searched 561.01% of D
+B).


where title contains "sudoku"

Date:    Author/owner:    Title:    Node type:

Press

to continue searching remaining 303.53% of DB.
Please be patient after submitting your search.

Link to preload this search: [href://?node_id=3989;HIT=sudoku]

I'm rather surprised that the percentages are greater than 100%; this is not someone usually sees. Is this a bug in the search function or is it something intentional?

[LanX]

Well known:

Please try ?node_id=3989;BIT=Percentage;D

Especially see:

Stats for super search look buggy

[eyepopslikeamosquito]

For some light relief, another recent node on this topic: Super Search confused?

[harangzsolt33]

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.

[LanX]

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 :)

[hippo]

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