Search for a phrase

Question

Hi

I may just be being dumb, but I can't work out how to do this in Hub.

In google, if I want to search for a specific string e.g. "How do I search in Hub" I put speech marks around it. In hub, this still searches for each word individually and returns all results.

How do you do a search in hub that will only include ALL words in the search query?

Thanks

JenniferSherry · Answer

Hi Thomas-

I came here trying to figure this phrase search thing out as well.  I would like for users on our Open Data site to be able to search for "Prairie Dogs" and not get a dataset that has only "Dogs" in it somewhere, like this:

https://open-data.bouldercolorado.gov/search?q=prairie%20dogs

As an aside, both trails and the bicycle/pedestrian datasets that are returned with the above search query have a field name of "Dogs", and that's the only reference I can find.  I'm trying to figure out how to narrow down the query results returned when using the search bar.

I looked though the Hub changelog that you mentioned below, but couldn't find anything about "phrase matching" or "text parsing".

Generally, I'm hoping to get a better understanding of using URL parameters to narrow searches.  I haven't been able to find much documetation!

Thanks-

Jennifer

ThomasHervey1 · Answer

Thanks for the example and feedback. We also plan to include better parsing of temporal and spatial dimensions from text queries as well as add temporal and spatial filters. But exact phrase search is a relatively easy change. I recommend keeping an eye on the Hub changelog for weekly changes.

MarlboroughDistrict_Council · Answer

Part of my problem was I had links to Open Data from other pages and I'd included 'sort by name' as part of the URL as thats what worked best at the time. If I remove that then it sorts by relevance which works much better.

For an example of where a specific string would be useful, it would be say searching for 'revaluation 2017' on our Open Data site. Currently, this also returns anything with 2017 in the title or description/tags, most of the results are completely irrelevant to the search

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