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  1. Documentation
  2. DOCS-9296

Docs search could be (way) better

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      A lot of people are getting frustrated with the built-in docs search. The reality is that most of the time it is more efficient to use google to search on our website.

      Consider this example - I want to quickly find the article on the $lookup aggregation operator. I expect this article to appear at the top of the result set.

      First I try to search on "lookup" - the article is not there:

      Then I try to search on "$lookup" - still no luck:

      Then I try searching on "$lookup" quoted - no luck:

      Finally, I use google.com to search on a single word $lookup and I get the article at the very top of the results:

      There is definitely a space of improvement in regards to search.

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            Assignee:
            kay.kim@mongodb.com Kay Kim (Inactive)
            Reporter:
            dmitry.ryabtsev@mongodb.com Dmitry Ryabtsev
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              Resolved:
              6 years, 41 weeks, 3 days ago