request: make keyword search find cache names

[grabs]

if i enter a cache name (like GC1CDX3) into the keyword search, there are no results. shouldnt the caches name be kind of the primary keyword for a cache?

 

how does anyone come up with this? well if i read about a cache, i might want to look it up, and to do this as fast as possible, i added geocaching.com as a search engine in IE7. right now i have to do it twice, once for cache names

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?wp=TEST

and once for keywords

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/nearest.aspx?key=TEST

 

it would be much nicer it this were possible with just one link.

 

and a further improvement: if only one item is found in the keyword search, it should be opened immediately (as this would be the usual case if looking for an exact name).

[+Cornix]

if i enter a cache name (like GC1CDX3) into the keyword search, there are no results. shouldnt the caches name be kind of the primary keyword for a cache?

GC1CDX3 is not the cache name but the cache id or "waypoint" in Groundspeak lingo. You can search for it with the "by Waypoint" search on the Hide and Seek page.

[+Harriet the Spy]

I use search plugins to navigate around GC easier, keyword, GC #, zip code. I use firefox, I don't know if they work with any other browser.

 

http://mycroft.mozdev.org/search-engines.h...name=geocaching

[grabs]

@harriet: yeah but do you have to select a different kind of search depending on what you want to enter (keyword, GC..., zip), or is it all unified in one thing? if the latter is the case, i wonder how they do it, because at the moment they all need different links on the geocaching page.

 

@cornix: you didnt read/understand my post. my point is not, that i cant figure out how to search things (in fact i wrote how to do it), but that you need different links to search for different things. thats clumsy if you want to use geocaching.com like a search engine.