For example, if I wanted to find your post from four days ago on long term future grants and typed in “grants”, your post wouldn’t appear, because your post uses the word “grant” in the title instead.
FYI, this was a very helpful concrete example.
On reflection your reasoning is false though—it’s not because the post uses the word ‘grant’. If I search ‘grant’ I get almost identical results, certainly the first 6 are the same. If I search ‘ltf grants’ I get the right thing even though neither ‘ltf’ or ‘grants’ is in the title. I also think that it’s not like there aren’t a lot of other posts you could be searching for with the word ‘grant’ - it isn’t just random other posts, there are *many* posts withing ~2x karma that have that word in the title.
Still, I share a vague sense that something about search is not quite right, though I can’t put my finger on it.
FYI, this was a very helpful concrete example.
On reflection your reasoning is false though—it’s not because the post uses the word ‘grant’. If I search ‘grant’ I get almost identical results, certainly the first 6 are the same. If I search ‘ltf grants’ I get the right thing even though neither ‘ltf’ or ‘grants’ is in the title. I also think that it’s not like there aren’t a lot of other posts you could be searching for with the word ‘grant’ - it isn’t just random other posts, there are *many* posts withing ~2x karma that have that word in the title.
Still, I share a vague sense that something about search is not quite right, though I can’t put my finger on it.