Inaccurate Search on Spyderco Website

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Inaccurate Search on Spyderco Website

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OK, this isn't so much of a forum issue as a Spyderco.com issue:

When searching for a particular model of a knife at Spyderco.com, I've noticed the search box is seriously unintelligent.

Just One Example:

Search for "Stretch K390" and you get "No Results Found for Products."

Enter "Stretch", sort through 7 results (2 of which are not Stretch) and there is the K390 Stretch.

Enter "Stretch 2" and you get 8 results (with several of the results being different than searching "Stretch.")

Enter "Stretch FRN" and you get nothing.

Enter "Stretch Lightweight" and you get one discontinued result (but misses the Stretch 2 XL LW).

Enter "Stretch XL" and you get nothing (though "Stretch 2 XL" gets 2 hits).

Above results are very similar with other searches...the search routine "can't even." It's as if search words have to very closely match the title given on a particular page, or the search gets seriously confused. What's up with that? How can a search box in 2020 be so...clueless?
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Re: Inaccurate Search on Spyderco Website

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Spyderco, please: Search for 'Police Lightweight' and the search can't find anything... Screenshot of the Police Lightweight below.
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Re: Inaccurate Search on Spyderco Website

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Can't find
lil native
will only find
lil' native
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Re: Inaccurate Search on Spyderco Website

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Can't find MicroJimbo if there's a space between the two words...
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Re: Inaccurate Search on Spyderco Website

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Search for "manix back lock" finds nothing... and yet... there it is...
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Re: Inaccurate Search on Spyderco Website

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Bolster wrote:
Fri Dec 22, 2023 4:53 pm
Search for "manix back lock" finds nothing... and yet... there it is...

The Paramilitary is a fun one. You get different results for Paramilitary and Para Military. Also, capitalizing different letters will sort the results differently. para military, Para military, paraMilitary, etc.
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Re: Inaccurate Search on Spyderco Website

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I have found the best way to search the spyderco.com product listings is to use the SKU prefix. e.g., for Paramilitary (1 and 2) variants, search for "c81". (This won't return any Para3 variants, since those all start with "c223".) Or for Manix variants, search for "c101".
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