Careers search is too strict

[clinton-fung]

The search functionality on https://canonical.com/careers does not return results that should be returned.

Setup

Given two roles with the following titles:

• Software Engineer - Ubuntu Build Infrastructure
• Software Engineering Manager - Ubuntu Build Infrastructure

Steps to reproduce

1. Visit https://canonical.com/careers
2. Type "ubuntu", "build", "infrastructure", "ubuntu build", "build infrastructure", or "ubuntu build infrastructure" into the search box
3. Select "Search roles"

Expected behaviour

• Search results for the provided search term are displayed.
• Both the roles listed in the "Setup" section are part of the search results.

Actual behaviour

• Search results for the provided search term are displayed.
• Only one role is part of the search results.

Additional notes

• Investigation highlighted that fuse.js is used for the search, and it checks title. description, departments, and skills fields, with threshold = 0.3.
• In a prototype, I've tested that threshold = 0.7 returns the results that were previously missing, but of course there are many more other results that are also returned.
• One suggestion is to use the ignoreLocation parameter with e.g. ignoreLocation = true, so that the entire text is eligible for search
• Another suggestion is to update threshold = 0.7.
• Yet another suggestion is to add tags functionality that can be used for searching
• A final suggestion is to create a list of all words in both the title and description, remove certain common words that shouldn't be searchable ("the", "in", "and", etc), and then add this list to the searchable keys.

[leeoniya]

A final suggestion is to create a list of all words in both the title and description, remove certain common words that shouldn't be searchable ("the", "in", "and", etc), and then add this list to the searchable keys.

shameless plug: https://github.com/leeoniya/uFuzzy
related: leeoniya/uFuzzy#7