When ever I type in something such
"Learn Basic Spanish" in the memrise
course search it always come up with
French 1, or if I type World flags then
Arabic 3 comes up. And to me it’s kind
of annoying to have to go to one of my
friends profiles to look for the course
or even just searching the web.
So if this bug could please be fixed
I would very much appreciate,
Thanks.
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Yeaaaah, the search function isn’t really everyone’s favorite.
You’re just gonna have to scroll down to see other courses.
Or you can use google search to browse Memrise courses.
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But is there a way to fix it. Like are there any staff out there
who know how to fix it?
I mean I started using memrise 2 years ago then stopped
some time last year and now I’m back at it again and I can remember
it working well when I first started using this site.
Time changes things. And it’s not always to positive direction
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I’ve only just found the Memrise forums and have already read about many issues that I have been experiencing too! This is one of them… I find that it works occasionally, but more often than not, the search will offer tons of courses for me that do not relate to my search in any way, shape or form. That, or it doesn’t change the courses displayed at all! If this is a fixable bug, I do wish the developers take some time to look at it.
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Perhaps it has something to do with the course tags? Maybe some course creators put irrelevant tags in their course tags in order to gain more learners. I have also been having trouble with the course search. 
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Some searches look at all results as single words and “Learn” and “Basic” will give lots of results. (It might also prioritise by popularity, hence French?)
Try just searching the Spanish area Learn Spanish online - the fastest way to speak | Memrise then type “basic” as a second search.
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Thanks to everyone
who replied! 
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Has anyone found a better solution?
I’d like to direct my students to Memrise because there are some superb specific courses (Medical English, IELTS English), but the search function seems to think in Klingon.
Today, I entered a search for ‘1000 most used words in English’ which I found on Google, but instead all the results were for European languages. I then told the search page that I wanted courses in English, and got a different, but still unconnected list of course names, including ‘Dank Memes’!! I never did find the course I’d entered by its exact name.
Why isn’t Memrise interested in a search function that works? I can direct my students to a page of Google search results, but that means they have to keep going in and out of Memrise until they find one of the courses that suits them.
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Is the “AND” syntax like keyword1 AND keyword2 supported?
Whenever I try the search, I also choose the source + target languages and limit my keyword to ONE single word.
This gives the best search results.
All other is a mess:
Do not even try to leave out the target or source languages!
Because their plan is probably (or maybe) to kill all user-created courses more sooner than later?
Maybe they have plans to shutdown the web portal…who knows…
Like on the mobile apps:
Only the 7 offical Memrise courses are shown.
You can neither search for user-created or add them from the app view.
For a good backend / database developer it should not be too hard to cache database queries, add a index tool (search engine) which caches and replicates across clustered servers, etc.
But the management or “business developers” seem not to give the go for those (worth) multiple days man power dev investments…
…or their investors just are not interested that their money is “wasted” with basic functionality like this 
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Source language! Yes, it doesn’t make sense that we have to choose a source language, as many of the language courses are ONLY in the target language–it would make more sense to have an ‘any’ selection in the list.
Oddly, I’ve seen other websites which depend on user interaction to keep themselves going, but no search function. Users get sick of struggling just to do simple things, they leave!
Ah well. I’ll send my students elsewhere, unless I’m offering them my own course. Pfft.
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Thanks for feedback everyone.
Don’t thank us, DO something.
A year and a half ago, I wrote directly to Memrise help about the difficulty using the search function, and the response was all, “oh, yes, we’re working on it…” But nothing.
The tech is out there. We’re not asking for telepathy.
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