Stop the Spelling “Correction” in the Search Box

Fauvist

You type in exactly what you're searching for and the DAZ3D genius spelling corrector changes the word to some completely different word. PCs have been around for 50 years.  Every commercial website in the world has a search function.  Can't you please please make the DAZ3D search function work properly?  It's unbelievably frustrating looking for anything here.

ALLIEKATBLUE

Daz doesn't correct my spelling. I dont seem to have that feature

PerttiA

ALLIEKATBLUE said:

Daz doesn't correct my spelling. I dont seem to have that feature

It doesn't actually correct the spelling, but shows results which do not match what was being searched, but something that's written almost the same... It is very irritating.

LeatherGryphon

UNIX had this solved 35 years ago.  Regular Expressions allowed you to be as precise or as loose as you wanted your text to be.  Being fluent in Regular Expressions was part of what makes a UNIX guru a wizard.  RE's fly from a wizard's fingers like sparkling magic spells.  But then along came Microsoft and their better idea.  True, RE's require analytical use of deep and dark parts of one's brain.  Which is why it didn't catch on in the world of the common man.

Richard Haseltine

If you are searching for a product you own try unchecking the Hide products I own box - sometimes if the only match is hidden for that it will show its best guess that will be displayed.

Wolfwood

Richard Haseltine said:

If you are searching for a product you own try unchecking the Hide products I own box - sometimes if the only match is hidden for that it will show its best guess that will be displayed.

That box(and any other filter), only works if you are navigating or using a pre defined query (selection). If you make an actual search, it is ticked by default and nothing you do can filter/unfilter the results (vendor, genres, etc; nothing works). This has been a problem since store update.

xyer0

No bean counter can quantify the effect that the borked search function has on the bottom line. Thus, its uselessness is EVIDENTLY not of immediate concern (as if six months is immediate). But the little, nagging, consistently jacked-up things eventually add up to ill will in customers. You don't miss your water until the well runs dry.

Richard Haseltine

Wolfwood said:

Richard Haseltine said:

If you are searching for a product you own try unchecking the Hide products I own box - sometimes if the only match is hidden for that it will show its best guess that will be displayed.

That box(and any other filter), only works if you are navigating or using a pre defined query (selection). If you make an actual search, it is ticked by default and nothing you do can filter/unfilter the results (vendor, genres, etc; nothing works). This has been a problem since store update.

Unchecking the box after the search completes changes the results for me - from a bunch of near misses to the item I was searching for usually.

McGyver

Working search function?... We dun need no steenking search functions...

xyer0

IT WORKS! THE SEARCH FUNCTION FUNCTIONS LIKE A SEARCH FUNCTION NOW!

Fauvist

If you can't find it you can't buy it.  There MUST be some way to turn off the spelling correction.  Just fix it so that whatever letters or words are typed into the SEARCH box don't get automatically changed.  Even correctly spelled English words get changed into completely different words.  Or give us the option of turning on a spell checker if we want it, and off if we don't want it.  Or let the spell checker give a drop-down list of alternate spellings or words that we can make use of or ignore.  Some company must make a SEARCH box that works.

Richard Haseltine

I don't see any sign of spelling correction, are you sure it isn't being done by an auto-correct function in your browser?

Wolfwood

Richard Haseltine said:

Wolfwood said:

Richard Haseltine said:

If you are searching for a product you own try unchecking the Hide products I own box - sometimes if the only match is hidden for that it will show its best guess that will be displayed.

That box(and any other filter), only works if you are navigating or using a pre defined query (selection). If you make an actual search, it is ticked by default and nothing you do can filter/unfilter the results (vendor, genres, etc; nothing works). This has been a problem since store update.

Unchecking the box after the search completes changes the results for me - from a bunch of near misses to the item I was searching for usually.

Working fine on clean(no addon) firefox, not working in Chrome (what i actually use), i cleared cache and all that. Will try more later. Thx.

Taoz

Richard Haseltine said:

I don't see any sign of spelling correction, are you sure it isn't being done by an auto-correct function in your browser?

Windows 8.1 has some built in (global I think, it affects browsers) spell checker which AFAIR is turned on by default, not sure about 10 (haven't noticed anything like that there).

Ascania

Fauvist said:

If you can't find it you can't buy it.  There MUST be some way to turn off the spelling correction.  Just fix it so that whatever letters or words are typed into the SEARCH box don't get automatically changed.  Even correctly spelled English words get changed into completely different words.  Or give us the option of turning on a spell checker if we want it, and off if we don't want it.  Or let the spell checker give a drop-down list of alternate spellings or words that we can make use of or ignore.  Some company must make a SEARCH box that works.

The search box works fine. The problem lies on your end. Turn off the spell checker in your browser.

Fauvist

Ascania said:

Fauvist said:

If you can't find it you can't buy it.  There MUST be some way to turn off the spelling correction.  Just fix it so that whatever letters or words are typed into the SEARCH box don't get automatically changed.  Even correctly spelled English words get changed into completely different words.  Or give us the option of turning on a spell checker if we want it, and off if we don't want it.  Or let the spell checker give a drop-down list of alternate spellings or words that we can make use of or ignore.  Some company must make a SEARCH box that works.

The search box works fine. The problem lies on your end. Turn off the spell checker in your browser
 

If it was my browser or my device it would happen on other websites - it doesn't - it only happens at DAZ3D.  The most "spell checking" I get is a red dotted line under a miss-spelled word, or a message for a miss-spelled word that says "are you sure you don't mean" with a correctly spelled word I have the option of clicking on.

Richard Haseltine

Fauvist said:

Ascania said:

Fauvist said:

If you can't find it you can't buy it.  There MUST be some way to turn off the spelling correction.  Just fix it so that whatever letters or words are typed into the SEARCH box don't get automatically changed.  Even correctly spelled English words get changed into completely different words.  Or give us the option of turning on a spell checker if we want it, and off if we don't want it.  Or let the spell checker give a drop-down list of alternate spellings or words that we can make use of or ignore.  Some company must make a SEARCH box that works.

The search box works fine. The problem lies on your end. Turn off the spell checker in your browser
 

If it was my browser or my device it would happen on other websites - it doesn't - it only happens at DAZ3D.  The most "spell checking" I get is a red dotted line under a miss-spelled word, or a message for a miss-spelled word that says "are you sure you don't mean" with a correctly spelled word I have the option of clicking on.

So what happens if you type

elehpant

in the search box, as in my image above?

Fauvist

I checked - I'm on iPad Safari. You're right.  Spell-check and Auto-correct were turned on. For some reason I don't understand, DAZ3D is the only site I go to where the autocorrect corrects words that are correctly spelled into complety different words.  I'm going to leave spell check and autocorrect turned on and then turn them off when I'm on DAZ.  
 

nemesis10

What is your browser?  If it is Safari, for example, check spelling while typing is under Safari>Edit>check spelling while typing.  There is no Daz-wide site spellcheck.  

AlmightyQUEST

Ascania said:

Fauvist said:

If you can't find it you can't buy it.  There MUST be some way to turn off the spelling correction.  Just fix it so that whatever letters or words are typed into the SEARCH box don't get automatically changed.  Even correctly spelled English words get changed into completely different words.  Or give us the option of turning on a spell checker if we want it, and off if we don't want it.  Or let the spell checker give a drop-down list of alternate spellings or words that we can make use of or ignore.  Some company must make a SEARCH box that works.

The search box works fine. The problem lies on your end. Turn off the spell checker in your browser.

It sounds like they made updates to search today anyway, so this may no longer be a problem. But you are incorrect, as I previously pointed out in one of the many threads on this same problem, the issue comes up when you own all of the items where your exact text matches what is in the title of the product. Because hide selected items is selected by default, search says it returns no items, and then it searches for the closest word match that has results. You can see in the url that it is searching for something different than what you typed, and if you are logged out in the same browser it will return expected results of items you own, so it is not the browser changing spelling after you hit search (who actually thought that was happening!?). Hopefully with the update today, months after the issues were pointed out, these specific, repeatable issues have been resolved.

Richard Haseltine

AlmightyQUEST said:

Ascania said:

Fauvist said:

If you can't find it you can't buy it.  There MUST be some way to turn off the spelling correction.  Just fix it so that whatever letters or words are typed into the SEARCH box don't get automatically changed.  Even correctly spelled English words get changed into completely different words.  Or give us the option of turning on a spell checker if we want it, and off if we don't want it.  Or let the spell checker give a drop-down list of alternate spellings or words that we can make use of or ignore.  Some company must make a SEARCH box that works.

The search box works fine. The problem lies on your end. Turn off the spell checker in your browser.

It sounds like they made updates to search today anyway, so this may no longer be a problem. But you are incorrect, as I previously pointed out in one of the many threads on this same problem, the issue comes up when you own all of the items where your exact text matches what is in the title of the product. Because hide selected items is selected by default, search says it returns no items, and then it searches for the closest word match that has results. You can see in the url that it is searching for something different than what you typed, and if you are logged out in the same browser it will return expected results of items you own, so it is not the browser changing spelling after you hit search (who actually thought that was happening!?). Hopefully with the update today, months after the issues were pointed out, these specific, repeatable issues have been resolved.

That was the case but I think it was chnaged a while back - certainly turning off Hide items I own has worked correctly for a while, and it's a feature I use quite often in answering forum posts.

Fauvist

Richard Haseltine said:

Fauvist said:

Ascania said:

Fauvist said:

If you can't find it you can't buy it.  There MUST be some way to turn off the spelling correction.  Just fix it so that whatever letters or words are typed into the SEARCH box don't get automatically changed.  Even correctly spelled English words get changed into completely different words.  Or give us the option of turning on a spell checker if we want it, and off if we don't want it.  Or let the spell checker give a drop-down list of alternate spellings or words that we can make use of or ignore.  Some company must make a SEARCH box that works.

The search box works fine. The problem lies on your end. Turn off the spell checker in your browser
 

If it was my browser or my device it would happen on other websites - it doesn't - it only happens at DAZ3D.  The most "spell checking" I get is a red dotted line under a miss-spelled word, or a message for a miss-spelled word that says "are you sure you don't mean" with a correctly spelled word I have the option of clicking on.

So what happens if you type

elehpant

in the search box, as in my image above?

With my iPad and browser spell-check and auto-correct turned off - when I type elehpant into the search box, I get 1091 results.  The search replaces elehpant into a lot of other words - like elegant.

Sevrin

You can probably leave the spell-checker on.  It's auto-correct that's the problem.

Richard Haseltine

Fauvist said:

Richard Haseltine said:

Fauvist said:

Ascania said:

Fauvist said:

If you can't find it you can't buy it.  There MUST be some way to turn off the spelling correction.  Just fix it so that whatever letters or words are typed into the SEARCH box don't get automatically changed.  Even correctly spelled English words get changed into completely different words.  Or give us the option of turning on a spell checker if we want it, and off if we don't want it.  Or let the spell checker give a drop-down list of alternate spellings or words that we can make use of or ignore.  Some company must make a SEARCH box that works.

The search box works fine. The problem lies on your end. Turn off the spell checker in your browser
 

If it was my browser or my device it would happen on other websites - it doesn't - it only happens at DAZ3D.  The most "spell checking" I get is a red dotted line under a miss-spelled word, or a message for a miss-spelled word that says "are you sure you don't mean" with a correctly spelled word I have the option of clicking on.

So what happens if you type

elehpant

in the search box, as in my image above?

With my iPad and browser spell-check and auto-correct turned off - when I type elehpant into the search box, I get 1091 results.  The search replaces elehpant into a lot of other words - like elegant.

That's the expected result, if it can't find any hits it tries near misses.

Silent Winter

We now need a clothng set in store named 'Elehpants'