Search results too narrow?

[authcode]

I'm still re-coding my V1 site to use V2 and I'm finding more and more of the V1 features I relied on are either changed beyond use or missing completely.

There is no "random" sort by option, which is extremely disappointing.
The catergory tree methods are just as bizarre as before (what's the point of getDescendantCategoryIds???), but different enough that I had to rewrite all my code.

And now I find the search is optimised to the point that it hardly returns any results. OK, so it may have been "loose" before, possibly returning irrelevant results, but I'd much rather have this than 1 or 2 or, more often than not, 0 results. It might work for the example "wii" but it really doesn't work for the multiple keyword searches I was using it for.

I'm pretty fed up with V2. It seems to have been designed from the ground up to suit ShopWindow and ShopWindow clones. I can't seem to do anything original with it like I did with V1. I'm sticking with V1 until it dies and then hoping V3 is a big improvement.

Has anyone else commented on the V2 search results? Is there some trick to getting more results back?

[Bud]

I completely agree.

This is actually the main problem I have with V2 and why I still haven't converted to it yet.

[authcode]

Looking back at my old V1 code, the searchProduct call took an "sMode" parameter. This could be set to "any" among others, and was very liberal and returned a good range of products. I guess V2 defaults to "phrase" or "all"?

I agree that the V1 calls and classes needed simplifying and V2 seems to achieve this, but at the expense of some of the more useful features.

I'd like to see some of these features reinstated.