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The subject of how bad Slack's search is comes up all the time in talking to friends and co-workers, and I wonder if the described ranking changes are enough.
by dgreensp 10y ago
The subject of how bad Slack's search is comes up all the time in talking to friends and co-workers, and I wonder if the described ranking changes are enough.
Usually when I'm searching, I'm looking for a particular message, possibly even one I read earlier that day, and I may know a few things about it, like who sent it and that it had an important link, but I still can't necessarily find it! The results are also presented in a giant cartoony way that makes me page through many pages. Tokenizing my search into "keywords" means that even if I know a substring of what I'm looking for, it doesn't come up as relevant, or the tokenizer tokenized the text differently. This is also why GitHub search can't find a lot of things.
What I would want in a search experience is the equivalent of Control-F over the list of messages I've actually seen.
- jliszka 10y agoStay tuned! We're working on improving phrase matching as we speak. As for the Control-F thing... stay tuned on that too :)