Board Thread:The Panopticon/@comment-24852144-20150619195628/@comment-188432-20150624200328

Thanks for pointing out this anomaly with Wikia's search engine!

I've passed it on to Wikia colleagues who deal with the search engine more regularly, and the basic deal is that our algorithm doesn't equate the cardinal English word (eighth) with the cardinal number (8th), whereas Google's does.

We're always striving to make our algorithms better! I strongly doubt it will always be the case that search will fail on the cardinal number.

If you see any more "weird" search engine fails, please feel free to pass them along directly to Wikia through a Special:Contact!