Search Issues

I don’t know if this will help you at all, but I was having the same issue and just figured out what happened. Our “home” setting is Springfield, Illinois (USA) and all of our listings are in the state of Illinois. However, if I were to just type “Springfield” without specifying the state, it defaulted to Springfield, Missouri and never found any of our listings in Illinois, no matter how wide a search radius we specified. Worked perfectly as soon as we put both “Springfield” and “Illinois” in the search box. Could there be another area near you with the same name?

Good luck!

The only solution in cases like this is to include the state as well in the search query.

But I think it’s a bit weird the Google API ignores the region parameter, and returns results for Argentina first. So I will look into this a bit more, there has to be a better way to get this to work, especially if the region is set to South Africa.

@melmosa I found a better solution, at least in case when the location you search for is located in multiple countries.

The Google docs mentions this:

Note that biasing only prefers results for a specific domain; if more relevant results exist outside of this domain, they may be included.

In this case the geocoder feels the result in Argentina is more relevant, even though you set the bias to South Africa. But I found another option you can use that will restrict the returned results to a single country. I tested it with Ceres, and when I enable it, and set it to South Africa then it returns the expected result.

With and without the new option.

So I will add the option to restrict the search results to a single country in the 2.1 update. That will fix the problem when the location is in another country.

@lisa thirdside I haven’t had time to test it, but it looks like it’s also possible to restrict the returned results by state. If this is possible, then I will place an article on the website explaining how to do this after 2.1 is released.