Searching for users / routes with exact match isn't good when the account has zero karma / route has no ticks

[brendanheywood]

What happened?

Searching for Ebor:

https://www.thecrag.com/search?S=ebor

Finds this private account:

https://www.thecrag.com/climber/ebor

But I can't find that same account when I search with the exact name:

https://www.thecrag.com/climbing/world/search?S=richard%20curtis

This is because we use karma as a ranking factor and that account is old and has zero. That only find the real duplicate richard account:

https://www.thecrag.com/climber/rcurtis

Searching including the username does work, but that's a pain:

https://www.thecrag.com/search?S=richard+curtis+ebor

What you expected:

• [ ] searching for an exact match should be ranked fairly high, and only outranked by other exact matches with higher karma

[brendanheywood]

This is more or less the same problem with routes which we rank based on ticks

No silence in the world list:

https://www.thecrag.com/search?S=silence

But you can see if you search within a smaller scope, but not actually sure why it floats to the top here:

https://www.thecrag.com/climbing/norway/search?S=silence

[rouletout]

one more, can't find La Rambla!

Search: https://www.thecrag.com/search?S=La+rambla Route: https://www.thecrag.com/climbing/spain/siurana/el-pati/route/18428605

[rouletout]

one more, can't find Mar Alvarez

Search: https://www.thecrag.com/search?S=mar+alvarez Climber: https://www.thecrag.com/climber/maral

[rouletout]

one more, can't find this climber:

Search: https://www.thecrag.com/search?S=jon+shen Climber: https://www.thecrag.com/climber/jonathanshen

[rouletout]

and one more, route name "la madone":

Search: https://www.thecrag.com/search?S=la+madone Route: https://www.thecrag.com/climbing/france/provence-cote-dazur/avignon-provence-area/route/1623418515

[rouletout]

one more, route name "La Castagne":

Search: https://www.thecrag.com/search?S=la+castagne Route: https://www.thecrag.com/climbing/france/saint-leger-gorges/route/1658328561

[rouletout]

One more, "Adam Ondra" is not found, search: https://www.thecrag.com/search?S=adam+ondra

Climber profile: https://www.thecrag.com/climber/adamondra

[rouletout]

One more, "The North Wall" is not found, search: https://www.thecrag.com/climbing/thailand/krabi/area/1720720308/search?S=the+north+wall

Area not found: https://www.thecrag.com/climbing/thailand/krabi/area/1720720308

[rouletout]

"The Wave" not found using this search: https://www.thecrag.com/search?S=the+wave

Should yield this result: https://www.thecrag.com/climbing/mexico/el-potrero-chico/area/11761231

[rouletout]

Just another one: https://www.thecrag.com/search?S=neanderthal

This did not find the famous route at all. Now that Jake has ticked it it is at the list but not before. He actually couldn't find the route for ticking.

The route: https://www.thecrag.com/climbing/spain/santa-linya/route/157220427

[rouletout]

see also https://github.com/theCrag/website/issues/3365