Still search problems

Ok guess I am repeating myself, but something is wrong with Search that didn't used to be wrong with it.

When I go to the welcome plants datapage, and see all the recent photos added into the data base, I noticed Aporophyllum was added, a genus I'm a bit interested in... so I search Aporophyllum and search says doesn't exist... yet there it is right in front of me. What's up?

And of course there is the much more troublesome problem with search not taking you to the plant, just the genus. If I search for a particular aloe, even if spelled perfectly, it only takes me to the aloe page, and I have to do the aloe species by alphabetical order search to see if it's there (especially now that there are 3-5 'duplicates' of everything in the data base pages). ANy ideas how this can be fixed?

Dave, It doesn't seem to be just the newly added plants either. Here is a search for Schizaea
http://plantsdatabase.com/search.php?search_text=Schizaea&Search=Search

But there are 3 entries that should have come up http://plantsdatabase.com/b/Schizaeaceae/Schizaea/

Numerous people have written to the helpdesk with search problems.

When doing a search for "Malva parviflora" 17 other plants with 'parviflora' in their name, and 5 Malvas come up. But NO Malva parviflora! It is hiding in there, though.

Mmmm, the entry for Malva parviflora is fairly new, yes? Typically the search picks up the new entries nightly. The problem Sue spotted above is also with recent additions, although I would have thought the nightly processing would add them to the search by now...

Dave, there does seem to be an increasingly urgent need to overhaul the PDB search: perhaps allowing us to put double quote marks around exact strings we want to search for, or allowing us the option of choosing whether to search only genus, species, common, or cultivar fields.

And if the results could differentiate exact matches from "is this what you meant?" results would help immensely...

Dave, I think the search is ignoring genus for some plants (if that makes sense.) For example, one error report was that the user was searching for Buphthalmum and got a slew of unrelated results: http://plantsdatabase.com/search.php?search_text=buphthalmum+&Search=Search (actually, she left a space at the end of her word; when I took out the extra space, I got zero results.)

However, a search for Oxeye (one of the common names for this plant) came up with this entry: http://plantsdatabase.com/go/56496/index.html

There appears to be a long delay in plants newly added to the database being accessible to the search engine.

For example, I added three comb-ferns of the genus Schizaea to the data base recently, the first of them Schizaea bifida on 18th March.

A week late, a search for Schizaea does not find anything. The same applies to every species I have added over the last week and a bit longer.

I noted that if I locate the species by tracking through the
images I have added, the species record is there and if I then click on the genus Schizaea, all three Schizaea species are found!

The same thing applies to the genu Lindsaea, which I added on March 16th. There are two species on this genu I cannot find either of them by searching. It is not just the genus, because a search for microphylla fails to find Lindsaea microphylla!

Ken Harris

I agree that for many recently added records the search is not finding them.

This is a new plant which I added recently:
Aporophyllum
http://plantsdatabase.com/go/63864/index.html

My initial image was added on March 19th. A second image was added March 25th.

The Search function will not bring up the record:

Aporophyllum - no results

Caroline - brings up 13 results, but not the Aporophyllum record

The only way I was able to add the second image was to back track through the images I have uploaded (listed on my member page), find the first image I uploaded and then bring up the record.

This is happenig with older entries also when searching for a common name. I can't remember other items for which I have been searching and could not find them without going back to my member page, clicking on view my full profile and then threads I have started, Edit and Find (on This Page). This method is quicker than going through all of my images. This is not just a recent problem.

When I do a search for Peruvian Lily it finds one, but not the others (they are somewhere in the multitude of lily pages):

http://plantsdatabase.com/search.phpsearch_text=Peruvian+Lily&Search=Search

Searching for Alstroemeria, they are all listed:

http://plantsdatabase.com/search.phpsearch_text=Alstroemeria&Search=Search

Searching for Fairy Lily, they all come up:

http://plantsdatabase.com/search.php?search_text=Fairy+lily

Looking for Rock rose iy never comes up on the listed pages:

http://plantsdatabase.com/search.phpsearch_text=rock+rose&Search=Search

Pale Rock Rose it comes up:

http://plantsdatabase.com/search.phpsearch_text=rock+rose&Search=Search

An additional oddity that may relate to this problem is the strange results I got on a couple of recent searches.
I first searched for Calochlaena, before adding a species of that genus, and the search fopund every specioes of Caladenia!!!
I then searched for Cheiropleuria and this time it found 37 species of Ceropegia!!

And - at the risk of piling on - the search doesn't seem to be looking at the synonym fields. Someone reported that Beloperone guttata didn't seem to be in our database. I tried searching for "Beloperone" as well as "guttata" and neither included Justicia brandegeana (the basionym to which B. guttata is listed as a synonym: http://plantsdatabase.com/go/622/index.html ) in the results: