Improve the search bar for exact sutta name search

[Upasaka_Dhammasara]

I have noticed the search bar will identify words in the suttas which super cool to search teachings etc But I have difficulty sometimes finding the searched sutta name. It might appear but a few suttas down. For example searching saṃyukta āgama will not give all as good as when search Sūtra. Because it’s a word in the Samyutta Agamas some of them appear. But it makes me wonder if there is other versions on the website. so searching saṃyukta āgama should bring all up. And also the correct names of these sutras needs to be worked on. Now most are SA numbered. Thank you.

[Gabriel_L]

This has previously been discussed in D&D:

Problems with searching suttapitaka, and possible resolution

Welcome to the wonderful world of natural language search. These kinds of problems are systemic, and there is no easy fix. Some suggestions: Use the Mahasangiti text as found on SuttaCentral rather than the CSCD or—good lord no, the Dhammakaya. While not perfect, it is by far the most consistent. You can download the raw text from here: You can put this all in one file if you like (on linux, use cat). It will of course have HTML tags, but you can strip these easily enough. If you want to …

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Search improvements

Hi all, so we are now looking at improving the basic search on the main SC site (NOT here on the forum!). This has been a long-standing issue for us. If you are interested, please check our Github issue first: Please let us know if we have missed anything, or any other features you’d like to see. A word of caution: search is hard! Search across 46 languages is hard! We get so used to how good Google is that we forget that cracking search was what made them the no. 1 tech company in the worl…

[Upasaka_Dhammasara]

Oh I forgot to search first lol thanks

[sujato]

I was thinking about this this morning. There are some cool things we’re doing now on our translation app Bilara, and I’m hoping they can be applied to SC, too. But it is complicated!