Search not differentiating between BE and AE

[Entropian]

I just noticed that the fora search function doesn't differentiate between British English and American English.  For example, if you search for "Textures Unlimited Recolor Depot," the thread does not appear in the search results, however if you search "Textures Unlimited Recolour Depot," it does.  As far as I know this is a common feature in search functions elsewhere.

[steve_v]

5 hours ago, Entropian said:

if you search for "Textures Unlimited Recolor Depot," the thread does not appear in the search results, however if you search "Textures Unlimited Recolour Depot," it does.

Both spellings catch that thread for me, as both spellings appear in it. The 'murican version lands at the bottom of the page though, as it's not the spelling used in the title.
 

5 hours ago, Entropian said:

As far as I know this is a common feature in search functions elsewhere.

Taking the most common search engine in the known universe (google) as an example, it really isn't. Google behaves exactly the same as the forum search, and only matches because there are some posts to that thread that misspell "colour".
"Textures Unlimited Recolour Depot" site:forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com" matches on the thread title, while "Textures Unlimited Recolor Depot" site:forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com matches a post on page 50.

IMO, if 'muricans want to randomly drop letters from the Queen's English, that's their concern. The thread author uses "colour", so that's the correct spelling in the context and the spelling one should use to search for it.

Edited October 8, 2020 by steve_v

[Entropian]

8 hours ago, steve_v said:

Both spellings catch that thread for me, as both spellings appear in it. The 'murican version lands at the bottom of the page though, as it's not the spelling used in the title.

My mistake, I used the topic title filter.

8 hours ago, steve_v said:

randomly drop letters

It really isn't random, but let's not get into that.

8 hours ago, steve_v said:

Google behaves exactly the same as the forum search, and only matches because there are some posts to that thread that misspell "colour".

Strange.  I just used Google and the hits were highlighted as the thread title.  DuckDuckGo also yields the same results.  Both search engines had the OP as the top result.

[Misguided Kerbal]

I usually just use google. Just do "KSP (Insert thing here)" and a forum link will come up. It usually works much better than the forum search.