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accidentalspaceexplorer
Jun 20, 2024

I've been noticing some pretty strong search issues, where it will show a book when the title is partially complete, only to then have it completely disappear if you type the full word. I've provided two screenshots: I was looking for "The Spice Gate" and when I only had "the spice ga" it was the top of the list, but when I had "the spice gate" it wasn't there at all, I went down about 20 books and could not find it. This seems like the opposite of what should happen!

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emmagiverny
Jan 2, 2025

I've noticed this consistently and it makes searching quickly very annoying

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phathaway
Dec 22, 2024

This is still a major issue 6 months later

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d_nice_
Jul 18, 2024

I’ve noticed this too and it’s a little crazy making 🥴

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Nadia
Jun 21, 2024

Thank you for the feedback. I've got some tweaks to do with the search algorithm and we'll also have an advanced search, with the option to specify exact title. In the meantime, when searching please keep typing to add in any part of the author's name if a book you want isn't coming up/has fallen out of the search results.

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peridotdot
Jun 11, 2025

Nadia Instead of making another thread, I thought I'd sneak in an comment here - This is still an issue. I read a lot of indie books and SG keep making me believe they're not in the database because when I search the EXACT book name it often does not show up and it often shows me books that doesn't have what I searched for in their title.

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Nadia
Jun 11, 2025

peridotdot Thank you for not making another thread. I've still not fixed this and we still need to have an advanced search option. In the meantime, what happens when you start typing part of the author's name?

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peridotdot
Jun 11, 2025

Nadia The author always works without issue. It is only book titles that the search struggles with for me.
(As long as you enter space after writing that is, I've seen that issue also listed. The search bar sometimes being slow so it cuts off your last letter written when you click enter)

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Nadia
Jun 12, 2025

peridotdot Okay, well, I haven't done any work on this since so I wouldn't have expected any improvement just yet. Sorry for the trouble!

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peridotdot
Jun 12, 2025

Nadia Oh no problem! I think you're doing a great job and you work hard! I was just being accurate in my response in case that data was valuable.

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