SteelBytes wrote:
is there a particular reasons that can't search for a url in a post? eg if I post a link to aliexpress then I'd expect to get results if I search for aliexpress
The one open question that I don't readily know the answer to is if you paste a bare link, without BBCode tags, will any of it survive indexing? Maybe. I don't have the code in front of me at the moment (I'm in Portugal right now) but it's possible that the more word-like portions of a link might make it into the index.
Or I might have deliberately removed bare links, too. It's been a while since I wrote the strip-for-indexing code — actually about 10 years ago, for a previous search indexing effort.