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The problem and pain-points for askbot users:

Askbot search results are not accurate and relevant.

Possible Search Features --

1. Should the search be like Google Search? Match Titles and Content inside the answers i.e the whole page?

   Search should not only show matching questions, but also display all the matches like a list, think Google Search results.

   Next, if we think a little ahead, Think -- a Synonym recognizing search? There can be many synonyms or very closely-related words.

2. The Relevance of search Results -- Should it show on the top of search results, based be on Frequency of hits or just perfect match searches or options like filtering by date/time like Google or something much-much-simple and much better?

3. What happens if a question is deleted? Is the search indexes updated instantly? Currently there are stale results i.e Some searches return deleted topics.

The problem and pain-points for askbot users:

Askbot search results are not accurate and relevant.

Possible Search Features --

1. Should the search be like Google Search? Search? Match Titles and Content inside the answers i.e the whole page?

   Search should not only show matching questions, but also display all the matches like a list, think Google Search results.

   Next, if we think a little ahead, Think -- a Synonym recognizing supported search? There can be many synonyms or very closely-related words.

2. The Relevance of search Results Results -- Should it be on Frequency of hits or perfect match searches or filtering by date/time like Google or something much better?

3. What happens if a question is deleted? Is the search indexes updated instantly? instantly? Currently there are stale results i.e Some searches return deleted topics.