Search results return vol 2 of the series

Search term: 悲劇の元凶

Issue: novel on the left is fine, but both manga series point to their vol 2 instead of first volumes.

I seem to be getting the correct results on Firefox desktop:

Additional info seeing eefara’s comment: I’m from Chrome on Android phone.

Seeing the same vol 2s in incognito so it’s probably not account-related.

I tried this on Android Chrome as well, and get what @Kroki is getting. The LN is fine, but the other two are their respective vol 2, and link their as well

Edit: same result on Android Firefox

Now I had to try it as well :rofl:

The difference between Kroki’s and eefara’s result is whether you set the results to “series” or to “one volume only”

With “one volume only”, I’m getting 4 results, all three manga are vol. 2 :thinking:

With “series”, I’m getting the series:

So it does seem to be a bug - it should return the first volume on “one volume only”, is my take…

There is a slight bug here, thanks for raising @Kroki !

This is related to the recent sort by relevancy update I did. Since the 2nd volume titles are shorter than the 1st volume titles, it’s ranking the 2nd volumes as more relevant than the 1st volume in this case.

I’ll change this so that we choose the representative volume via popularity, not strictly text relevance score.

Choosing via popularity = Choosing the first volume for sequential narratives. However, for loosely related books grouped together as series by default I think going with the most popular makes sense.

@nikoru was also right about the series handling. If you went by ‘series’ mode and not ‘one volume’ it showed the image of the first volume as that’s the default image if no other image is provided.

@brandon this might be related: if I search “d gray man” on Spanish Natively with “Series results: series”, only volume 7 is returned:

Same thing with German, only volume 19 is displayed:

@Kroki this is now fixed! - Japanese Books Difficulty List | Natively

@eefara the issue is that most titles don’t have a space between ‘D.’ and ‘Gray-man’.. so we don’t match. Only the 7th volume and a few others. I should be surfacing all of them.

It doesn’t show the series because the text doesn’t match the series (also no space).

This is mostly a data issue I think.. there are improvements I could do around how to analyze ‘.’. Could be a follow up request