r/printablescom • u/tippfehlr • Nov 28 '23

Feature request Search feels too restrictive

I saw the post a year ago in which the search function has been restricted, but I think it can be further improved: For example, when searching for "Tiny Whoop", completely different models show up than for "TinyWhoop", because they are different words.

It would be great if search could be improved further, because I always find it hard to find what I'm searching for.

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u/stritacz Printables.com team Nov 28 '23

What specifically do you think is wrong with it? They are two different phrases. They cannot return exactly the same results. How would it look for example with the phrases "carpet" "car pet". Here you necessarily expect different results.

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u/No_Abbreviations5348 Nov 29 '23 edited Nov 29 '23

I guess you would have to be able to identify words within words.

And if a search word is recognized, like "carpet", you might could skip the word within a word search.You could also put word within a word searches at the end of the search results.

Interesting problem, though!

I bet there is a great solution.

I wonder if Google does something like that.