4
$\begingroup$

On math.meta, when I do a search for cstheory I get several results, none of which is this one:

unfound question

(The question is here.)

For it to find this question as well I have to search for cstheory.stackexchange.com.

The help tips on searching include putting the text in quotes to get "an exact match" which suggests that without the quotes it matches on any old thing, and should find cstheory in the above.

Why is it unable to find that question?

(I suspect that it isn't found because the cstheory in that question does not have white space delimeters either before or after it, but that's only a guess.)

$\endgroup$

1 Answer 1

Reset to default
4
$\begingroup$

The reason the SE search engine is not able to find that post is because it does not consider a full stop (.) to be a "word separator". There have been a few requests on Meta SE to change (upgrade?) this behavior; here are some that I could find:

In order to find the post you were looking for, you need to use wildcards * in your search string. For instance, searching for cstheory*, I do see the post you were looking for in the search results.

$\endgroup$
0

You must log in to answer this question.

Not the answer you're looking for? Browse other questions tagged .