Better search behaviour

Natively Product Requests
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Description of your request or bug report:

It’s pretty clear at times that Natively’s video content functionality was added on later, and that sometimes makes searching videos a little awkward.

Two examples where it would be good to fix:

  1. If you are on a video listing page, the search box at the top should default to video search, not book search

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  1. When you’ve accidentally searched the wrong media type and change to another media type, this ends up being a two step operation. First you need to choose the media type, then you need to search again. It would be good if it preserved your search query in this situation:

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2

I’m pretty sure this has been brought up before, but I can not find it to be in a request, so it was probably shared on the general feedback. Moving it for review.

3

Somewhat related issue: there is at least one place where “Search books” hint text appears, even though you’re in Video. Screenshot of My Videos on mobile

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4

Thank you! I have that firmly on my list of things to fix :crossed_fingers:

5

When I search for the books of an author, I also get books where the author’s name is part of the book title, but the book was written by someone else.