Search

In the search box, you can search either for people on a StatusNet server, a group or a piece of text in the public notices. The search item must contain three (3) or more letters. You can search for more than one word at once, separating the search items with a space.

Search results (for notices) are displayed in reverse chronological order (most recent first).

Logical expressions and the order of your search items are ignored.

Implementation notes

 * SearchAction family for frontend UI
 * SearchEngine family for backend query implementations

Plans for 1.0
Search redesign 1.0

Feature reqs of interest

 * http://status.net/trac/ticket/1269 - search an individual user's notices
 * http://status.net/trac/ticket/1236 - people search function should include the tags that users can assign to other users in its search algorithm.
 * http://status.net/trac/ticket/1131 - URL search
 * http://status.net/trac/ticket/1096 - show search on every page
 * http://status.net/trac/ticket/837 - RSS for people search results
 * http://status.net/trac/ticket/869 - Geolocation support
 * http://status.net/trac/ticket/806 - add option for wildcard searching
 * http://status.net/trac/ticket/781 - Add a "search on the web for this tag" on single tag page.

Bugs of interest

 * http://status.net/trac/ticket/765 - cannot search for short names
 * http://status.net/trac/ticket/600 - Searching for users seems to only do exact matches.
 * http://status.net/trac/ticket/538 - Full-text search & i18n: problems with stopwords, and minimum length
 * http://status.net/trac/ticket/317 - Search with non-latin symbols doesn't work