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Consider this query, which yields 3 questions (today).

[hortonworks] -[hortonworks-data-platform] is:question views:10..10

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Anticipating the Meta effect, the view counts will change, but here's what those three questions have at the moment:

One

Two

Three

NONE of those are 10 views. This appears to be a bug.

You may ask, "Why are you asking for such a small number, anyway, why not just ask for larger numbers?" I've been cleaning up these tags, and am trying to organize my work so I cover all questions once - I find that stepping through by view count allows me to batch questions into chunks I can handle between real-life interruptions.

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    We don't re-index questions for search when only views change. Searching by views isn't terribly precise as a result. Not in a position to verify at the moment, but my money's on [status-bydesign] here. Commented Feb 8, 2016 at 4:39
  • @Adam while I tend to agree, I think this renders the whole "search by views" operator useless. If it can't be precise, better just remove it. Commented Feb 8, 2016 at 8:51
  • @ShadowWizard Not sure I agree. It's still broadly useful at larger magnitudes. Commented Feb 8, 2016 at 9:00
  • Maybe it is easier to fix your real-life interruptions... Commented Feb 8, 2016 at 12:37

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As a developer says in a comment:

We don't re-index questions for search when only views change

This makes sense, and means the views we see in search results are the views when the question was last indexed, i.e. when there was some activity in the question. (e.g. edit, new answer, etc.)

This makes the bug .

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