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basic keyword search now broken/untrustworthy

574 1,752 October 28, 2025 at 09:38 AM
see attached screenshot, but with the exact same filters in place (most notably, without "hide expired" toggled), and whether logged in or not...
  • searching for "dreamegg" shows 4 results matching that company -- none of which were the frontpage deal I bought back in September
  • searching for "hx-r30" (the model number of that fp deal) DOES show two results

what gives? searching for a unique company name should be an ultrabasic functionality and immediately makes me assume the internal search is useless and I'll have to google "thing+slickdeals" from now on.


(I saw some other threads in this subforum but nothing matching this kind of egregious fail but please correct me if I'm wrong)
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10-28-2025 at 02:58 PM.
10-28-2025 at 02:58 PM.
Quote from jasonbuechler :
see attached screenshot, but with the exact same filters in place (most notably, without "hide expired" toggled), and whether logged in or not...
  • searching for "dreamegg" shows 4 results matching that company -- none of which were the frontpage deal I bought back in September
  • searching for "hx-r30" (the model number of that fp deal) DOES show two results

what gives? searching for a unique company name should be an ultrabasic functionality and immediately makes me assume the internal search is useless and I'll have to google "thing+slickdeals" from now on.


(I saw some other threads in this subforum but nothing matching this kind of egregious fail but please correct me if I'm wrong)
Thanks for the feedback. Something definitely seems wonky. I sent this thread over to the search team so that they can look into this issue.

One thing you may want to try is to switch from searching the past 3 years (which is the default) to all time, because that does bring up those two missing threads.
https://slickdeals.net/search?q=dreamegg&searchtype=normal&filters%5Bforum%5D%5B%5D=&sort=relevance&filters%5Brating%5D%5B%5D=all&filters%5Bdate%5D%5B%5D=-1&filters%5Bprice%5D%5Bmin%5D=&filters%5Bprice%5D%5Bmax%5D=
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10-30-2025 at 02:16 PM.
10-30-2025 at 02:16 PM.
Quote from jasonbuechler :
see attached screenshot, but with the exact same filters in place (most notably, without "hide expired" toggled), and whether logged in or not...
  • searching for "dreamegg" shows 4 results matching that company -- none of which were the frontpage deal I bought back in September
  • searching for "hx-r30" (the model number of that fp deal) DOES show two results

what gives? searching for a unique company name should be an ultrabasic functionality and immediately makes me assume the internal search is useless and I'll have to google "thing+slickdeals" from now on.


(I saw some other threads in this subforum but nothing matching this kind of egregious fail but please correct me if I'm wrong)
This has been fixed, so searching in the past 3 years now shows those missing deals.
Thank you again.
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llars
11-03-2025 at 09:35 PM.
11-03-2025 at 09:35 PM.
Something has definitely happened to search very recently where results are all over the place. For example, if I search for "Elden Ring" with or without quotes I get tons of results with the word ring in it, the top result is a teething ring. Previously it would only show the game.


It looks like I can get more accurate results if I search for "Elden + Ring" so it's like the defualt is search for any word not all words.
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11-05-2025 at 10:40 AM.
11-05-2025 at 10:40 AM.
Dang I should have checked previous posts before posting a new one.

I posted here
https://slickdeals.net/f/18767542-slickdeals-search-function

Yeah search is still f'ed...not reliable anymore.
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NCSU2008
11-05-2025 at 08:05 PM.
11-05-2025 at 08:05 PM.
Came here to post same thing, clearly not alone on this one

Typing "isopure" and "isolate" are not pulling up nearly enough results

For example this thread from late september

https://slickdeals.net/f/18635932
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11-11-2025 at 05:46 AM.
11-11-2025 at 05:46 AM.
Have there been any recent SD staff posts addressing this issue? God I miss Fat Wallet.
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11-11-2025 at 09:31 AM.
11-11-2025 at 09:31 AM.
Quote from stokey :
Have there been any recent SD staff posts addressing this issue? God I miss Fat Wallet.
Some fixes have been released and a lot more are being worked on. Staff use the search a lot too for price research and to check for reposts so it's a big problem for everyone. Apparently search technology is more complicated than it seems, but hopefully soon it will just work. Feel free to start new threads in this forum if a search isn't working since it might be slightly different than other reported problems.
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