Vendor Search Query : Does this result make sense to anyone ?

popps

The picture says it all... I entered "name token" as search words and I got, among other results, what can be seen in the picture here below.

What puzzles me, is that the item, at least to my impression, seems to have neither the word "name" nor the word "token" in the description.

So, why did the search engine pick it up ?

Anyone has a good explaination ?

Lord_Frodo

OK  This one is legit.  Good one @popps

Arroth_Thaiel

Vendor Search is searching by string, closest match to least closest, then displaying the results most to least expensive, or vice versa.

Your string is "name token". I'm betting nothing matched that exactly, so you got the closest results vendor search could provide.

The "na" in "exceptional". Followed by the "en" in "defense".


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If you just search for "na", you can get all kinds of "anatomy" gear, followed by "promotional" tokens, etc., depending on how you have the results sorted, pricewise.

Skett

Ya I get some strange results sometimes 

that makes sense 

Lord_Frodo

Arroth_Thaiel said:

Vendor Search is searching by string, closest match to least closest, then displaying the results most to least expensive, or vice versa.

Your string is "name token". I'm betting nothing matched that exactly, so you got the closest results vendor search could provide.

The "na" in "exceptional". Followed by the "en" in "defense".


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If you just search for "na", you can get all kinds of "anatomy" gear, followed by "promotional" tokens, etc., depending on how you have the results sorted, pricewise.

I do searches all the time shard hopping and I have never seen anything like what @popps is showing.  What is showing isn't even close to what he searched.  I get a lot of item not found and if what you say is true then there would never be an item not found.  Yes if you just search for the letter "a" you will get everything that has the letter "a" in it.

Skett

Victim_Of_Siege

Skett said:

when you search for a specific word it will find it anywhere it can. "kienetic" eater got you that time

Arroth_Thaiel

Yeah, there is some funkiness to it for sure.

If you search for "III", three capital i's, you get all the level 3 primers. I do this with a least to most display to look for the cheapest primers. "III" will also get you Ultima III paintings, but not Ultima VIII paintings.

If you use "II", two capital i's, you get all the level 2 and 3 primers, Ultima II and Ultima III paintings, and Ultima VIII paintings.

"I", single capital I, will get you everything with the letter "i", lower case or upper case.

Since vendor search is not case sensitive, you can search "iii" and "ii" to get the same results as above.

username

Vendor search is always broken for me