New and Improved Search Experience on Khan Academy!

Hi Grace! Thank you so much for this update! It's a pleasant surprise, and a much-welcome update. I love the detailed search view, and I'm glad the Google-powered option is still available for those who need it. But two things by way of feedback after using the search.

One, it might help to clarify (maybe somewhere on helpdesk how-to's) that there's two levels of search. One is the quick-search in the bar, without clicking it: when closed, it's back to whatever page one was one. Second is the deeper fuller, on-click (or press-enter) search that's just been implemented.

Two, I hope India and other regions are added to the Standards/curriculum search. Although the site in India is geo-personalised to display relevant courses in the homepage and Courses drop-down, it's still helpful to have this additional navigation boost.

Beyond this, I'm only grateful and impressed by all the recent design and navigation updates (many of which were learner-facing, besides, of course, classroom-focused updates). The new search bar performs its function exceedingly well, and the detailed filtering, while it could use a how-to explainer perhaps, is extremely helpful in finding relevant content.

One thing I still want for the search feature is the ability to search for programs

Hi FakeCxrpss! Thanks for this suggestion! I agree that searching for programs would be helpful, but it was out of scope for our team to build this time around since it would involve adding every program to our search index, when there are millions of programs people have created on Khan Academy! 
The best place to find programs is still on the Browse Projects section 

I appreciate your feedback and maybe in the future we will be able to offer a more specific search experience for programs.

Thanks for being part of Khan Academy!

-Grace

Well Grace, I do feel like it wouldn't be as bad as you make it to sound. Let's use YouTube as an example. From what I could find from a simple search, YouTube uses an algorithm. The way it searches includes, watch time and watch percentage, as well as likes, comments, and shares.

Now, I don't believe that the team on KA couldn't make an algorithm that mimics this. The team could simply go off of votes, spin-off, T&T comments, and whatever other data KA stores from programs. It's not out of reach for the KA team. You could also go off URL Id's and names. Every program has a name to it and an ID at the end. The algorithm could go off of names if it has to and the ability to go off IDs if the user searching only has that.

If I wanted to search for "3D Minecraft tunnel" by John, then I could search for the name or a keyword from it such as Minecraft, and it'll show programs in order from votes, and it would show up near the top. It could also have the ability to sort differently such as by spinoffs, comments, and such. I could also search users to see them and the programs they've made.

Now let's say I have an ID for a program that I had saved some time ago, and I didn't remember the name nor where I got it from. Let's say Doodle Jump by Nordituck. Well, the ID for it is 1431776579. Now, let's say I didn't know what it was for because I didn't have the name anymore. Well, I could just go to the search, and it could look for what program (or programs depending on how the ID works) is linked to that ID, and I would be able to figure out what it's for.

There are so many good things this could be used for. I have so many programs I remember that I had bookmarked on my old browser years ago that were either a WIP or something I found interesting, and now they're lost. If I had the search feature, I could look for some using keywords I remember or even the name for some I can remember. There are also tools people make for things that could be useful to everyone if we could find them easily, such as a drawing tool, shape creator, and more things that make coding and other things easier to do. But most people can't find them, so searching for programs would help out with that. Knowing the KA team, they could pull it off with the time and work. It's just a matter of whether they want to.

My bad if I went on a rant for no reason, I don't really know how stuff goes on over there but I was just giving my opinion.