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The search is broken
By WitchOfTruth, history, 3 years ago, In English

The search on the site is terribly broken

Say I want to find all tutorials, I search "tutorial"

What I see is only four blog entries.

Even though there are plenty blog posts which have [Tutorial] in the title and tutorial in the tags, search dosn't show them. I kind of can accept that full-text search imperfect, that's ok, but even search by tag doesn't work

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3 years ago, # |
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Every search except for the "Find users" search is broken. The search functionality in the problemset, and even in the standings looking for some contestant is painful.

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A good workaround is to search at google “codeforces tutorial” or more specifically something like “binary search tutorial codeforces”

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    3 years ago, # ^ |
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    That's what I use.

    Still, google cannot replace working search by tag

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3 years ago, # |
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I guess if we're complaining about broken features, I'll just leave this here:

"rating (all)" has been broken for at least a few years now. It should show top rated contestants, including inactive ones, but it displays the exact same list as just "rating".

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    3 years ago, # ^ |
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    Actually it doesn't show exactly the same list. Last page on active ones is 490 and last page on all is 1730. If you go to page 490 on the rating(all) list you will see that after the greys with negative rating there comes inactive reds... Which I mean, is still very useless, you'd want to see the inactive reds alongside the active reds in the rating(all) list, not 490 pages later...

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3 years ago, # |
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Welcome to codeforces!

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3 years ago, # |
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You can search within a site using google.

Say I want to find all tutorials, I search "tutorial"

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