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Can search once again be made to allow for the colon character to be used in a search please?

Prior to the great update to searching you put out, I could include a : in the search term and I would often use it to find posts of videos based on the duration of the video as the duration gets added to the post title.

This was very reliable for finding videos as people tend to [edit to not hurt feefees] insufficiently title their posts and videos can be impossible to find based on what they are actually about, so going by how long I knew a video to be helped a lot with finding videos.

Since the update to search was made, I've made several searches for videos by duration and was presented with zero results for the term. As it wasn't an error and was saying there were no results, I didn't think about it further. However, I did a search for a video duration of a post I knew existed and search would not find the post despite its title including the duration of the video and my search matching this duration, thus this report.

e.g.

A post titled "They've Long Since Said The Quiet Part Out Loud [1:39]" (https://poal.co/s/WhiteGenocide/690482) Searching for "1:39" would *previously let me find this video post based on its duration as it isn't titled in a way that notes who is in the video or what it is about. I know at least one other version of the video has been posted that is 1:35 in duration, but I can't find the post for it as I can't search for videos by duration currently. (I commented with a link to the 1:35 clean version I saved from a post in 2021, but I can't find that post to link to it based on searching for its duration.)

Can search once again be made to allow for the colon character to be used in a search please? Prior to the great update to searching you put out, I could include a : in the search term and I would often use it to find posts of videos based on the duration of the video as the duration gets added to the post title. This was very reliable for finding videos as people tend to [edit to not hurt feefees] *insufficiently title their posts* and videos can be impossible to find based on what they are actually about, so going by how long I knew a video to be helped a lot with finding videos. Since the update to search was made, I've made several searches for videos by duration and was presented with zero results for the term. As it wasn't an error and was saying there were no results, I didn't think about it further. However, I did a search for a video duration of a post I knew existed and search would not find the post despite its title including the duration of the video and my search matching this duration, thus this report. e.g. >A post titled "They've Long Since Said The Quiet Part Out Loud [1:39]" >(https://poal.co/s/WhiteGenocide/690482) >Searching for "1:39" would *previously let me find this video post based on its duration as it isn't titled in a way that notes who is in the video or what it is about. I know at least one other version of the video has been posted that is 1:35 in duration, but I can't find the post for it as I can't search for videos by duration currently. (I commented with a link to the 1:35 clean version I saved from a post in 2021, but I can't find that post to link to it based on searching for its duration.)

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The search breaks down titles into word arrays, so you can search for exact specific keywords in random order. That's the best compromise to save resources.

Try to search for "Biden Laptop Hunter" (without the quotes), you'll now get way more results than before when the correct ordering was necessary.

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Sorry for taking more of your time. I just encountered an error of changing the page of search results causing the search term in the url to get altered from: [01:35] &q=[01%3A35] to &q=[+%27+[+0+1+:+3+5+]+%27+]

If I manually replace the altered version with all of those added characters to the previous term, it directs to the proper page of results again instead of giving no results.

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Good catch. Fixing it now.

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Awesome. Switching result pages is working perfectly now. Thank you very much!

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That is incredibly useful and I appreciate that you put the time and work into making it that way! It has made finding things much easier than before.

I've found several things that I didn't save a while ago and couldn't find again until your update to the search allowed me to find them and save them. I do appreciate your updates very much.