But that order is effectively random. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/23919296/how-is-elastic-search-sorting-when-no-sort-option-specified-and-no-search-query Best, Glenn

I believe there is. It's the order that Elasticsearch found them in the (listed) group-name/description database. Duane

The bad examples are more frequent than the good ones. In a search on "IBD," three groups that just mention the term tangentially in their descriptions display first. (One of them uses the term simply

Would be hard not to. There is currently NO relationship between the search results order and the actual search term. -- J Messages are the sole opinion of the author, especially the fishy

Yes, to me this is important and it doesn't work intuitively like that. Donald <j.olivia.catlady@...> wrote: ---------------------------------------------------- Some ham radio groups you

The list is indeed too large and it doesn't sort on relevant terms in the groupname. If I wanted to look through hundreds of groups that have the words in their description and not the groupname, I

Of course, because if your group was not listed in the directory, it is not findable and would not display to the public. Now it's subject to whatever search/display criteria are being used, with all

FWIW, words or phrases in the description of our parent group started coming up in searches immediately after I changed Settings > Privacy > Visibility from "Group not listed in directory, private

Still doesn't solve these issues. -- J Messages are the sole opinion of the author, especially the fishy ones. My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together. - Desmond Tutu

Thanks, I intentionally inserted "feline lymphoma" into the description somewhere right after seeing Duane's results. -- J Messages are the sole opinion of the author, especially the fishy

Actually it is quite easy, without changing the group name. Starting with the fact that the search results are based on what a group owner puts in the description, then simply ensure that "feline

Of course! We get that. But this needs a change at some point. At the very minimum, if there is no time to fix the display order, stop calling the search "By Name." That would be a five-second fix.

FWIW, there has to be some default results order, so the existing is as good as any. If Mark decides to include any of the suggestions in this topic, such as an "advanced" search page/box, there will

And from the user's point of view, suppose you are looking for groups about horses. You put in the search term "horses." Your search is specifically SAID by groups.io to be a search "by name." What

That's well and good. However, group owners with the search term in their group's name would expect the reverse: namely, not to be displayed pages below a group that only mentions the term in their

I had not considered this viewpoint and appreciate your efforts to point it out. I suppose it's because I hark back to the research days when wading through "hits" was expected. Oh the time it took to

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Some groups have already added text to their descriptions along the lines of “Keywords: apples, bananas, grapes.” I think the real problem in that regard, or one of them, is that the order does

How about adding an option to “Search key words” somewhere, with such words selected by the group owner and presumably identifying the primary interest or function of said group? Best! WRB —

Is that because the list of groups returned is too large and hard to sort through because it is displayed in a non-helpful way (I would agree there), or because many of the groups returned are