> * We fixed an issue where a sentence was not part of the search results, even though it had been indexed previously. This happened when the sentence was recently translated, or for which the owner or correctness has changed.

Just to elaborate on this. The original problem was that even though newly added sentences could be found within an hour (and now 15 minutes) using search, they could actually not be found as a translation. For example, let’s say you translate an existing Arab sentence A into a Bolivian sentence B. Then, you were able to find B by looking up words of B, but looking up “words of A translated into Bolivian” didn’t return A.

The interesting thing is that fixing that bug brought a new feature: changes in terms of authorship and unapproved status are now instantly visible in search results. These criteria affect the search result ranking algorithm (orphan sentences get a lower score, and unapproved sentences an even lower score). It means that for example, orphan sentences will be brought up in the search results as soon as someone adopts them.

The recent improvements on the search (including this) also lays the foundations for a more advanced search functionality with multiple criteria like owner, creation/modification date, tags, unapproved status etc.