Bug 220841 - Search finds scant results when weather provider's website is accurate
Summary: Search finds scant results when weather provider's website is accurate
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 205235
Alias: None
Product: plasma4
Classification: Plasma
Component: widget-weather (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: Compiled Sources Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Plasma Bugs List
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Reported: 2009-12-31 20:15 UTC by Marcus Harrison
Modified: 2010-05-11 05:39 UTC (History)
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Description Marcus Harrison 2009-12-31 20:15:30 UTC 
Version:            (using Devel)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Compiled sources

For example, searching, "Blackpool" in the plasmoid's configuration with, "BBC Weather from UK MET Office" selected results in no matches, and searching for my post-code results in a town as far away from Blackpool as possible while still being in England ("Fowey, Cornwall"). However, a search from the UK MET office website results in many results for different details: http://search.metoffice.gov.uk/kbroker/metoffice/metoffice/search/search.lsim?qt=Blackpool&sr=0&nh=10&cs=iso-8859-1&sc=metoffice&sm=0&sf=&ha=1030&Search=Search

Additionally, a search on the BBC Weather website results in a perfect match: http://news.bbc.co.uk/weather/forecast/315?&search=blackpool&itemsPerPage=10&region=uk
Comment 1 Shawn Starr 2009-12-31 20:25:00 UTC 
I know, BBC broke my search parser before. It's still not perfect. If they keep breaking im going to drop BBC altogether. They are not providing a proper way to search for places and this engine is getting the most complaints so I may just axe it. There will be more sources soon. But my RL needs take priority.. no job == no KDE.
Comment 2 Per Ångström 2010-02-01 10:19:14 UTC 
Looks like a duplicate of bug #205235.
Comment 3 Aaron J. Seigo 2010-05-11 05:39:20 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 226022 ***
Comment 4 Aaron J. Seigo 2010-05-11 05:39:56 UTC 
whoops, wrong bug#

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 205235 ***