Spotify's fuzzy search makes me want to do pirating again. Looking for a non mainstream artist can be really hard at times for no good reason than to appeal to the dumb average user. I even tried to build my own spotify player and going over the API - same shit (allmost).
Tell HN: I hate your fuzzy search
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#12HackerNews search respects double quotes around your terms as an exact match, as do many other search engines.
For example search for "Amerca" with and without quotes. Without quotes you get content for "America" but with quotes you only get the exact typo match.
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#13Gmail's search on mobile, where things come up in the quick results only to disappear when I complete the search, is a millstone about my neck.
Asana has the same problem. Really frustrating.
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#14Best search is windows where u get trash can Onlineshop when u look for the trash and terminal the movie if u look for the terminal
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#15script for finding HN GH links ranked
https://gist.github.com/hundredwatt/183191d02f1fe0db31c3e910...
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#16Oh man, I hate my area has switched to Facebook marketplace over Kijiji or even craigslist.
Even when an ad exists with EXACT obscure model I'm looking for... It spits out pages of unrelated or semi related garbage before it may or may not show me what I'm actually looking for :-(
Quotes, slashes, nothing seems to work. So I'm with you! Sometimes I just want an exact literal search.
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#17Spotify's fuzzy search makes me want to do pirating again. Looking for a non mainstream artist can be really hard at times for no good reason than to appeal to the dumb average user. I even tried to build my own spotify player and going over the API - same shit (allmost).
Spotify really wants you to play Spotify's own AI music, since they get to pay themselves the artist royalty.
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#18Gmail's search on mobile, where things come up in the quick results only to disappear when I complete the search, is a millstone about my neck.
Killing and restarting the app unbreaks this. Maybe someone from the team could, you know, fix that?
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#19I understand the comment, and the spirit, but speaking only for myself, I find the HN search to be quite useful.
I'm thinking that double-quotes does, indeed, force an exact search.
But fuzzy searches can be extremely useful. Most folks are "fuzzy."
Google built a pretty huge empire, on simple, fuzzy search.
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#20Amen! I hate this trend towards fuzzy-first for everything. Deterministic should be default, fuzzy should be a special toggle.
I'd say close to 90% of my daily searches could be served with exact matching. The next 8-9% could be solved by a little more deterministic sophistication (e.g., edit distance, equivalence classes for synonyms). Then the last 1-2% is when I really need some fuzzy magic; mostly to give me an idea what to do with obscure programming-related problems.