🔎 Search (Tracking bug)

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Who for

• As a user, I want to find a specific product quickly (eg first result)
• As a user, I want to find a list of products matching my preferences, with the better fits on top

What - IMPORTANT - README

• We are starting an ambitious project to extract search from Producer Opener (the server), and overhaul it using Modern Technologies. https://github.com/openfoodfacts/search-a-licious
• All efforts should be channeled in that project

LEGACY CURRENT SEARCH - USEFUL FOR REFERENCE

• Old Design doc

Change the search backend to allow for more powerful, more scalable, faster search

• Search - Explore using mongodb text index feature for product search #1510 (probably not powerful enough)

Expanding the scope of search

Make more fields and things searchable

Beta Give feedback

1. Being able to search or list by weight #155
   ⚖️ Quantity 🔎 Search +2
2. Add "criteria" in the "Products search" page #18
   API 🔎 Search +2
3. Search - Add new vegan / vegetarian / palm oil status in advanced search form #3333
   palm oil ⏰ Stale 🎯 P1 🔎 Search 🔎 Advanced Search 🥗🔍 Ingredients analysis +6
4. Search - Allow to use extended user roles in advanced search #915
   🔎 Search 🔎 Advanced Search +2
   
5. Support dates in searches #516
   🔎 Search +1
6. Text search considering 'custom completeness' #2762
   status system 🔎 Search +2
7. Searching by packager code doesn't work in the Advanced Search #169 (bug)
8. Search - Use OCR results to make uncomplete products searchable #191
   OCR 🔎 Search +2

Limit search to specific fields

Beta Give feedback

1. Search in ingredients (and just in ingredients) #903
   🔎 Search 🥗 Ingredients 🧽 Data quality +3
2. Allow to search only by name or generic name #485
   API API READ P3 🔎 Search +4

UI issues

Use consistent wording with the product page

• Search - Use the same words for criteria in "Products search" and in the product page (and edition page) #17

Improve search performance

• Ignore common words in search #425 (people add “nutrition” which yields 0 results)

Add more results visualisation options

• Display search results as a table #2916

Better 0 result experience

• Search - Add a promo for the mobile app if someone searches a barcode that does not exist #3362

Multilingual search

• Search only works for the main language of the product #1918

Rank and sort search results better

Beta Give feedback

1. Search - Allow to sort search results by NOVA group, Nutri-Score and Carbon impact #2172
   personal search 🎯 P1 candidate 👍 Top 10 Issue! 🔎 Search 🔎 Search - Ranking +5
   
2. Add a view where products are ordered by most recent scan #158
   scan statistics 🔎 Search 🔎 Search - Ranking +3

Mobile Search

Please see the cross-platform mobile search tracker

(Mobile) Allow system-wide search into Open Food Facts

(Mobile) Enable Google Search deep linking integration

Add search autocomplete

Beta Give feedback

1. Autosuggest in advanced search form #1120
   help wanted ✏️ Editing - Auto Suggest 📊 Charts 📊 graphs 🔎 Search 🔎 Advanced Search +6
2. Autosuggest for the Chart Generator #343
   ✏️ Editing - Auto Suggest 📊 Charts 📊 graphs 🔎 Advanced Search +4
3. Add search autocomplete #389
   🔎 Search +1
4. Autocomplete / suggest as you type backend for search queries on product name, brands and categories #5006
   Fixed ? ⏰ Stale 🔎 Search +3

(Mobile/Web) Add search knowledge cards

• Search - Add rich results in search #168

(Mobile/Web) Add search builder at the bottom of products

(Mobile/Web) Add tweakable recommandations at the bottom of products

(Mobile) Enable native mobile advanced search

(Mobile/Web)

Allow natural language search queries

Beta Give feedback

1. “Show me ready made meals that are NutriScore A sold at Aldi”
2. “Show me the repartition of NutriScore for Nestlé in Europe”
3. “Make me a graph of all breakfast cereals with NOVA groups, nutrition value and Nutri-Score”

Improving the country of sale field

• Search - Improve Search by reducing the frequency of foods in other languages appearing #5514

Why

• Regular users rely on Open Food Facts to find the best products for them
• Producers rely on Open Food Facts to benchmark their products

Part of

• 🎯 What can I work on ? #5529

[github-actions]

This issue has been open 90 days with no activity. Can you give it a little love by linking it to a parent issue, adding relevant labels and projets, creating a mockup if applicable, adding code pointers from https://github.com/openfoodfacts/openfoodfacts-server/blob/main/.github/labeler.yml, giving it a priority, editing the original issue to have a more comprehensive description… Thank you very much for your contribution to 🍊 Open Food Facts