Suggestions

The ancient versions of regular genes are named the same as the regular ones, but with the breed in parenthesis. This means that it is impossible (as far as I know) to search for only the modern version of the gene.
For example, if I search in the auction house for Secondary Gene: Hex, the results are a mix of the modern and Gaoler versions of the gene. Right now that's just two versions, but the more ancient breeds are added the harder it will be to find the modern versions of a gene.

One way to solve this would be to have some sort of drop-down, either in the Categories drop-down or separate from it, to select to only see ancient genes or modern genes.

This is also a problem with other items (e.g. Chimera vs Ashmane Chimera, Depin vs Corrosive Depin, Elk vs Snowfall Elk, etc).

Edit:

In order to fix this for all items, one solution would be a button to toggle between exact match and regular search (credit @nika). Another would be to add exclude search terms (credit @duskghost).

Having an exclude filter for the AH could fix both those problems, as you'd be able to exclude "Gaoler" or "Ashmane" to only get results for the item you want.

[quote name="nika" date="2019-12-04 13:35:37" ] We really need SOME fix for all this. Personally I'd like a "only search for items with this exact name" option, since that would include things other than genes. [/quote] This is the fix I'd like to see implemented, and not just on the AH but on all search boxes. A toggle to switch between "includes" and "exact match" would solve this problem neatly.

I agree that it would be nice to have an option to search for the exact match. sometimes I search for food, materials and familiars and have the same problem. examples: if I search for "fly", I can get: [item=flycatcher] [item=Flurry Flyer] [item=Flying Gurnard] [item=Venus Flytrap] but I only want this item: [item=fly] or I want to find this familiar: [item=basilisk] but these familiars also show up: [item=Grouse Basilisk] [item=Coral Basilisk]