Release Notes/Search

Release Notes for Search in the Second Life Viewer and on search.secondlife.com.

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2010.03.03

The following release affects Viewer 2 and search.secondlife.com.

Release Highlights

• These sorting options are now enabled: Sort by name in People; sort by name or traffic in Places.
• These search collections are now enabled: Events, Land Sales.

Resolved Bugs

• Categories dropdown disappears if category contains no result
• "Internal Server Error" appears after searching for "." value
• Page count unreadable at 100 and above
• Search results differ with punctuation marks
• Destination Guide & Search Tabs Blank in Certain Situations
• Residents who no longer want to be found in Search still in index
• Additional maturity filtering implemented to match Viewer 1 behavior

Known Issues

• Remove "New to second life? Try it now!" from Search listings
• Events and Land Sales are not easily browsable or searchable in current UI.
• Name sorts should switch between A-Z and Z-A each time they are clicked
• Search UI does not have a visible and clear indication of what sort/filter text is enabled on the search tabs
• People filter: Name sort doesn't return results for partial name matches
• Events provides events out of order and in the past
• Unicode characters no longer working in any queries
• Other unresolved issues as listed in previous release notes below.

2010.02.23

The following release affects Viewer 2 and search.secondlife.com.

• Release Notes/Second Life Beta Viewer/2.0
• Release Notes/Second Life Beta Viewer/2.0/Advanced Info

Features and Changes

Highlights of this release:

• User interface redesigned with improved organization of features and actions.
• New and improved Destination Guide (previously known as Showcase). The Destination Guide features new destinations added daily in arts, fashion, music and more.
• Expanded use of Google Search Appliance (See Search Guidelines for tips on how to tune listings for searchability)
• Infrastructure redesigned using HTML on top of Django web services to increase development speed and flexibility
• Relocated search appliances to multiple colos for increased redundancy
• Amount paid for a Classified is now shown in the Detail view and not in the Classifieds tab view.

Known Issues

Following are some of the usability and technical issues we are working to resolve:

• These search collections are not yet enabled: Events, Land Sales.
• These sorting options are not yet enabled: Sort by name for People, Places.
• Category filtering not yet working on Classifieds tab.
• Search results are sometimes slow to load.
• When opening the Find window for a new search, the previous page is visible while new search loads.
• Browsing search listings without a keyword doesn't work. E.g., Attempts to browse by initiating a search with no keyword will return you to the main search page.
• Total number of results found only shown in Relevance sort view.
• Maturity filtering not yet completely implemented for all searches.
• Instructions for becoming adult-verified are not shown to non-adult accounts that search for adult content in Classifieds, Events and Land Sales.
• Searching for only adult terms in Events and Land Sales without the Adult option enabled returns all non-adult results.
• Events on adult regions may show up in non-adult searches.
• Classifieds are not blocked from specific some Education and Teen estates which have opted out of showing ads.