# Improved search engine - occurring errors

**URL:** <https://community.metabrainz.org/t/improved-search-engine-occurring-errors/504381>\
**Category:** BookBrainz\
**Created:** [November 17, 2020, 7:12pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/improved-search-engine-occurring-errors/504381 "2020-11-17T19:12:18Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![indy133](https://community.metabrainz.org/user_avatar/community.metabrainz.org/indy133/32/36101_2.png) [@indy133](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/indy133)\
**Post date:** [November 17, 2020, 7:12pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/improved-search-engine-occurring-errors/504381/1 "2020-11-17T19:12:18Z")

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I think it’s better to use a new thread for this topic @mr_monkey.  
This is the first time the engine doesn’t work correctly —\>

 ![Vollbildaufzeichnung 17.11.2020 195544](https://community.metabrainz.org/uploads/default/original/3X/1/c/1c50134c0e01791aad7cb79421aadd7d88ba0de3.jpeg)

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**Author:** ![indy133](https://community.metabrainz.org/user_avatar/community.metabrainz.org/indy133/32/36101_2.png) [@indy133](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/indy133)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2020, 10:29am UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/improved-search-engine-occurring-errors/504381/2 "2020-11-19T10:29:39Z")

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Another strange search problem ----\>

 ![Vollbildaufzeichnung 19.11.2020 112719](https://community.metabrainz.org/uploads/default/original/3X/d/a/da2af904f9da67eb9eb79b88c582ab774907c656.jpeg)

Couldn’t find Isaac Asimov

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**Author:** ![anon91644636](https://community.metabrainz.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/ac91a4/32.png) [@anon91644636](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/anon91644636)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2020, 11:48am UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/improved-search-engine-occurring-errors/504381/3 "2020-11-19T11:48:13Z")

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Something has changed as he was usually located in the middle of the first page.

You will locate him if you go to the bottom of that page and click on either ‘100 per page’ or ‘Next Page’.

 ![Screen Shot 2020-11-19 at 10.47.14 pm](https://community.metabrainz.org/uploads/default/original/3X/5/6/5667eab4cf5f9df98a1a5f49b79ebec162a00694.png)

I would prefer to see him at the top of the first page.

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**Author:** ![indy133](https://community.metabrainz.org/user_avatar/community.metabrainz.org/indy133/32/36101_2.png) [@indy133](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/indy133)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2020, 11:52am UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/improved-search-engine-occurring-errors/504381/4 "2020-11-19T11:52:03Z")

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Ok, thx, but that’s not the way it is supposed to be I think. The “perfect” hit should be on top or at least not far away from the top.

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**Author:** ![mr\_monkey](https://community.metabrainz.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/e95f7d/32.png) [@mr\_monkey](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/mr_monkey)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2020, 12:38pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/improved-search-engine-occurring-errors/504381/5 "2020-11-19T12:38:39Z")

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A couple of tickets I created to track these issues:  
[https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/BB-574](https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/BB-574) and [https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/BB-575](https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/BB-575)

Keep em’ coming ! 🙂

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**Author:** ![indy133](https://community.metabrainz.org/user_avatar/community.metabrainz.org/indy133/32/36101_2.png) [@indy133](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/indy133)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2020, 6:16pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/improved-search-engine-occurring-errors/504381/6 "2020-12-08T18:16:47Z")

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Searching for abbrevations with dots doesn’t work in the rel. fields:

 ![Vollbildaufzeichnung 08.12.2020 184038](https://community.metabrainz.org/uploads/default/original/3X/3/9/398a4f4cb2caee1d8c74c9c6102f8be0fc7b9f75.jpeg)

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**Author:** ![indy133](https://community.metabrainz.org/user_avatar/community.metabrainz.org/indy133/32/36101_2.png) [@indy133](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/indy133)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2021, 3:57pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/improved-search-engine-occurring-errors/504381/7 "2021-02-18T15:57:34Z")

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Searching for names with German letter “ß” (and most likely other non-english letters) doesn’t work properly.

 ![Vollbildaufzeichnung 18.02.2021 165035](https://community.metabrainz.org/uploads/default/original/3X/1/2/129faafc906172147b1eef2cfbca6217573b23e7.jpeg)

no problem if you use “ss” instead:

 ![Vollbildaufzeichnung 18.02.2021 165113](https://community.metabrainz.org/uploads/default/original/3X/8/5/85f9ae156f8ba4eb0d5f673d185c51523605133d.jpeg)