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Search Returns Random Stuff?

Why, when I search for a word does it return random posts that don't contain that word?

e.g.
https://blog.tyro.me/search?q=dead
https://blog.tyro.me/search?q=bubba


a year ago, 5 replies   bug   Edit question

The issue is the quality of the stemming algorithm in use on Blot, both for querying and indexing your posts. I plan to fix this soon, these results will eventually improve over time

Answered 2 years ago · Edit answer

Any update on this? I'm finding I get very poor results in Blot's search too. Almost to the point of where it's useless TBH.

Answered a year ago · Edit answer

Not too helpful but I site: search my site instead of using built-in search. Not something readers will do but...

Answered a year ago · Edit answer

I'm actually thinking about replacing the Blot search feature with an embedded DuckDuckGo field because the results are so poor.

Is there any update on fixing this? I imagine it would be relatively simple, like the solution I used when my site was on Jekyll:

https://kevquirk.com/how-to-add-search-jekyll/

In fact, thinking about it...I wonder if I could implement something similar using Blot...

Answered a year ago · Edit answer

I should have improved the search feature recently – you should not see posts which do not contain the search term in the results.

Can you share some examples of search queries not returning the results you'd expect?

Answered a year ago · Edit answer