On 10/03/2011 03:06 PM, Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen wrote:
On 10/03/2011 01:26 PM, Anup Verma wrote:
Friends, don't you find any problem with the algorithm used to search
in the software center. Giving you an example:
Let us search for MultiGet. When I write "Mult" in the search
MultiGet appears at the 6th position. As soon as I add 'i', I see
that surprisingly, MultiGet now appears at 10th position with some
rather irrelevant options before it.
Not understandable...
I can confirm this. Looks like matches in the app name doesn't score
comparatively higher than matches in the descriptions. You should file
a bug on Launchpad if there isn't already one...
Looking more into this I realise what the real problem is. The problem
lies in applications which contain the term "multi" as a single token.
Fx. applications which incorrectly spells "multimedia" as "multi-media".
This latter form becomes indexed as two words "multi" and "media". This
gives and exact match on the word "multi" when searching and this ranks
higher than a prefix-match on words such as "MultiGet".
Academics aside - the fix is still to make sure that any form of match
in the app title scores higher than matches in the description.
Cheers,
Mikkel
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