[aacircle]

Hello,

Below are my search results on our gallery running 5.62.

Test search "Sky"

-"search title only"
OK, 26 results
-"search titles and description"
OK, 66 results
-"search all fields"
OK, 72 results
-"search comments"
OK, 0 results for this string

Search by user
-OK

Search by date
-OK

Select categories
BROKEN

search: "sky" + category "female scans"
BROKEN, 72 results... first page = 1 fanart, 2 sigs, 1 wall, 1 avatar, 3 member pictures, 1 wallpaper, 3 female scans, 2 male scans

-11/15 of my results are not what I wanted

search: "sky" + category "fanart"
BROKEN, 72 results, identical to the previous ones

-14/15 of my results are not what I wanted


Other Issues

-there is no search by tags... why am I tagging this stuff again?

-the only way to access advanced search from most gallery pages is to submit a blank search

-default search on most pages is the broadest possible search: all categories and all fields including descriptions and comments. Making default searches incredibly broad and the results more irrelevant than not.

-searches for small words and abbreviations turn up every word that contains that combination of letters.

- BL (Boy's Love) turns up results for "black" and "blue"
- AI (a girl's or character's name) turns up the words "ain't" and "AIM"
- CAT (animal) turns up "catch" and "category"

There is no way to specify an exact search.

Thank you and I hope this info is useful.