Hard or impossible to search for dates

[glenn_mcdonald]

Using the API /search endpoint, I'm trying to find playlists with dates in their titles, like "2025-05-09" or "5/2/25". This works badly in general. The search breaks the query string up into individual numbers, and the results end up being dominated by playlists that match the year (for example) but not the whole actual string. In some cases (like "5/2/2025" where everything that matches "2025" also matches "5" and "2") it is nearly impossible to get any actual matches in the top 1000 results. In some cases (like "2025-05-09", where both "05" and "09" at least narrow the results even as separate tokens) I can get some correct matches, but rarely more than 10% of the available 1000 results. Can whole-string matches be prioritized, either by default or if the whole string is quoted?

[glenn_mcdonald]

For a couple examples, you can see only 1 actual match to "5/2/2025" here: https://everynoise.com/research.cgi?mode=playlist&name=5%2F2%2F2025

but 16 matches to "5/1/2025" here: https://everynoise.com/research.cgi?mode=playlist&name=5%2F1%2F2025

and 60 matches to "5/3/2025" here: https://everynoise.com/research.cgi?mode=playlist&name=5%2F3%2F2025

whereas with dashes instead of slashes, 2025-05-01 finds 68*, 2025-05-02 finds 77 and 2025-05-03 finds 95.

* Oh, good grief. This number was actually one higher, but when I wrote that it got converted to "**bleep**".

[glenn_mcdonald]

This week Friday was 2025-06-06, and because of this search behavior, the repeated "06" is meaningless and any playlist with "2025" and "06" matches. Out of 1000 results, only 7 are actual matches for the full string.