Currently, the searching capabilities in the Aha ideas portal are seriously lacking. With better optimized searching capabilities, users (and internal employees) will find existing ideas more easily. This will optimize the user experience on our ideas portal and save time for our moderators by reducing duplicate ideas. Take your own ideas portal as an example with 7000 ideas and counting. Reducing duplicates by optimizing searching-and suggestion capabilities would be immensely useful.
Please add the following searching capabilities:
Allow searching for partial words (i.e: searching for "suggest" will also show ideas that contain "suggestion")
Allow search query's to search in comments.
Allow us to map synonyms (i.e: searching for "paint cabinet black" will also show results that contain "paint drawer dark"). Allow searching for synonyms.
Highlight search results
Allow search query commands (contains: "blabla" or doesnotcontain "blabla")
The more ideas are submitted on your ideas portal, the more valuable better optimized searching-and suggestion capabilities are.
https://big.ideas.aha.io/ideas/APP-I-1471
Moreover, optimizing searching would go hand in hand with better filtering options, which is an idea that's already existed on your ideas portal for over 7 years
https://big.ideas.aha.io/ideas/APP-I-1471