Improve Search Results

[micahalcorn]

Our listings search feature does not produce the most helpful results. For example, a search for "Origin Event Shirt" reveals 265 listings, and the exactly matching "Origin Event Shirt" is the 12th result. I don't know whether the 11 results ahead of it are promoted for some other reason, or we're just not sorting results based their degree of match. Additionally, there are some extremely fuzzy matches that arguably should not be returned or should be buried.

[DanielVF]

It should be easy to make this a bit better.

https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/guide/current/proximity-matching.html

I'll update the query tonight or tomorrow.

[DanielVF]

PR pushed that makes a search for "Origin Event Shirt" return just that listing.

[DanielVF]

"Origin Event Shirt" now only shows one listing:

In the longer term, some more possibilities are:

• Not show sold listings by default in DAPP search results.
• Reprioritize cheap items (say less than 50 cents worth)
• Inactive older items rank slightly lower after X time with no events.

[micahalcorn]

Thanks @DanielVF! 💙