Search results are not sorted by date

[hasgeek]

Search results are not sorted by date

[jace]

Search results are intended to be sorted by relevance, as determined by the search engine. We can change this to sort by date if relevance isn't being obvious when looking at the search results.

[zerothabhishek]

Relevance based sorting sounds reasonable, but results look awkward when I am trying to search jobs in a city. Perhaps search is not the way to find city based jobs. Closing this anyway.

[jace]

You are right, search is not the best way to find by city. I've been planning city-based views (like /type and /category, a new /location) but to do this the code will need to match the location string to a known list of cities. It has to account for spelling variations ("Bangalore" vs "Bengaluru"), regions with multiple cities ("NCR" = "Delhi" + "Gurgaon" + "Noida") and multiple cities mentioned in the location ("Bangalore or Pune").

[zerothabhishek]

Kiran,
Its probably better to have a bunch of cities shown as options (eg- jobs in Bangalore, jobs in Noida) than have the user provide them. But even then spelling variations may need to be recognized in job-post creation.
If this is needed in medium term, please open an issue and assign it to me. I'm not pro in python, but have done similar stuff in ruby.

[jace]

I thought leaving it as a text field was a good way to discover how employers describe location. For instance, would anyone list the locality within a big city for the commute-conscious? A "Koramangala, Bangalore"? That hasn't happened at all. No one steps away from the template offered in the help line ("Bangalore", "Pune" or "Anywhere"). Many even try to submit with the city name in quotes.

I guess we can call of that experiment and think of a new way to present the location field. Maybe an autocomplete field that filters through a location database?

[zerothabhishek]

That hasn't happened at all. No one steps away from the template offered in the help line ("Bangalore", "Pune" or "Anywhere"). Many even try to submit with the city name in quotes.

That is surprising to me because I have noticed a few posts containing a rather big address in location field. But then now there is no need for location-spelling-processing, and looks like an autocomplete will be good.

[jace]

I must have missed those. If people are doing it, that's great.

[jace]

We're now following up on the location field issue in #55.