Could the web search be improved? Currently number of “valid” searches on the web do not come up with the right bottling while things work right on Android.
For example, if I look for Diplomatico 2008 (RX 17287) using the terms “diplomatico 2008” or “diplomatico 43” on the web, the bottling will not come up, but if I use the same terms on Android, the bottling will come up.
I think that’s because the vintage/year is not included in the search index. RXid and Name and there must be others, since “diplomatico venezuela” strangely gets 2 results where you don’t see “venezuela” anywhere in the card. But why only 2 rums when adding the country I have no clue.
Edit: ABV seems to be included in some cases but not in others. “diplomatico 40” finds 4 rums, 2 of them have the 40 in their RX-id, the other two have 40% abv. Obviously there are much more Diplomaticos with that ABV, why only those 2 turn up is a mystery. Looks to me the search index is built inconsistently.
Thank you for your feedback. I have now optimized the search mechanism on the website. It should now be easier to find the rums you want. Feel free to try it out. I look forward to any feedback.
One slight improvement request still. If the strings could be normalized to latin characters, it would make the searching easier for people who are not used to those characters nor have them on their keyboards. Example:
RX #19257: Instead of having to search using ’ Zéro Nine’ it would be nice if you could be able to find it using ‘Zero Nine’.
In addition anything like L’Absolu or L’Esprit has to have the leading “L” included in order to be found. The Apostrophe can be ommited, though. I’m not sure this is intuitive (for non French speakers): “Lesprit” (hit) vs. “Esprit” (miss).