Course Search function - what am I missing?

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I must not be understanding the search feature. Currently to find a course I have to search through hundreds of “most popular” courses in any topic. It takes five minutes just to get to any courses I haven’t seen already. If I want to look at a course (because the title looks like it might be useful) I lose my place in the scrolling and I’m right back to the top of the “most popular” courses.

Obviously I’m missing something because otherwise it’s the worst designed search feature I’ve ever seen.

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The course search function was never great but there used to be more options for sorting. Those included popularity, difficulty level and typing/non-typing if I remember correctly. Memrise removed those sorting options and now the results are sorted by number of learners (apart from Memrise’s own courses at the top). It also seaches for all words in your search entry. That makes it really hard to find anything useful.

So limit your search words. You could take some time checking out courses by opening them in new tabs.

Other possibilities are checking what other courses active learners in your topic(s) are also taking, looking at other courses created by the creator of a particularly good course, or you could ask for advice here on the forum. But don’t wait for Memrise to fix it.

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I also use google.com to search:
Greek 5000 most common words site:memrise.com
Does sometimes help. But it searches also in the levels, which give to many doubles.

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Wow. I’m astonished that this search feature is a deliberate choice. It is the worst search function I have ever seen, truly amazingly bad. I gather that Memrise is generally pretty inept? A good core idea, but then miserable implementation?

I’ll try your suggestions for finding courses indirectly, thank you!

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Thank you, appreciated!

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I don’t want to be that negative. But I would certainly appreciate it if some of the details were fixed and improved. It makes it so much easier and more pleasant to use. It is like a car: not the things that work makes it pleasant to drive it, but the number of things that are broken make it inconvenient to drive it…

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I usually try search within search on the web version.

So do a global category search - say “art” then do a search by one key word eg ‘popular’, ‘key’, ‘basic’, ‘pre-raphaelite’ or ‘impressionism’ etc.

This works for other subjects and key words too.

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