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1 year ago Here's a quick mock-up. In the first one, you get search query tips when there are no results. We may also want to show this when the user enters this page and has not searched yet. Or maybe just always have this info available at the bottom of the screen, so it's always available.
The second screen shows small circles next to each title, indicating the quality of match. Green is great, grey is worst, and colors can be also in between based on the score of each result.
While testing the search, I also realized two bugs:
- There are some results that just show "...". This is because we now have placeholder pages for SEO that we didn't have when first setting up the search. Would be ideal to filter these out on the server side, so they don't unnecessarily increase the file size of the search data
- The text of each result includes the page title. This can be easily stripped out on the client.
While discussing search with the Wallet Scrutiny team, I saw that the JS library we use in our site/guide is outdated. We use 0.7.1, the latest version is 2.3.9. This should give us new capabilities like fuzzy matching. So if someone accidentally types "bitgoin", it will show results for "bitcoin" (the live site does not do this right now). A couple of other ideas:
This probably needs some testing of different search intents and terms to narrow in on what produces the "right" results. So a good idea might be a draft PR for hands-on testing changes, and a design mock-up for exploring visuals, and then merging the two.