On Sunday, April 12, 2015 at 11:41:09 PM UTC-4, Rob McBroom wrote: > > On 11 Apr 2015, at 20:27, random1destiny wrote: > > > I mean look at the first result for "OR" for a better example. The > > first > > result is > > > > /Applications/Utilities/Activity Monitor.app > > > > There is absolutely no way you can logically say that's a better match > > for > > "or" than > > > > /Applications/Orbis.app > > Again, this is probably because you’ve launched Activity Monitor using > Quicksilver a few times, but not Orbis. And there are other factors that > influence rank, but I don’t know them all. > > Yes, some of them may have been launched before. But there are definitely some I know I have never launched, core.jar for example, I have not touched Java since before Quicksilver so there is no reason I would have launched this with Quicksilver under any circumstance. Also, items like web history that pop up in there I know I have not launched through quicksilver also outrank the Orbis.app.
It sounds like you are saying that launching Activity Monitor even with phrases other than "or" and "orb" will raise it up for these phrases vicariously? I've suspected that 'vicarious' ranking was added to Quicksilver sometime in the last few years but never confirmed it. Good to know. That's also why I changed my thread title because maybe more info on the ranker could shed light on this. I think this 'vicarious' rank increase may explain around 10-20% of these results but there are many that I know I have not launched ever. > > I understand training and have been using Quicksilver since the > > Jitkoff > > days, but to train you need to be able to reasonably find the item the > > first time around in catalogs that can contain hundreds or thousands > > of > > items. "or" to find /Applications/Orbis.app should be an easy match, > > it > > turns into a huge hassle when I want to find something that's actually > > hard > > which is why I'm making this post. > > That’s exactly the situation the “Assign Abbreviation…” action > was created for. Do a long search you never want to do again to make the > thing easy to find in the results, then call “Assign > Abbreviation…”. Next time, it should be very high (if not first) > when you simply type the abbreviation. > > > I've always used Quicksilver a fraction of as much as I should because > > of this and assumed the string ranker was going to be improved but 8 > > years later it definitely hasn't (though I will say Textstart is an > > improvement and I don't understand why it's not the default until a > > better one can be made). > > Don’t over-estimate the influence of string rankers. They’re only > part of the total rank, and are really most useful as a tie breaker when > things are otherwise ranked equally. > > I agree TextStart should be the default. > > -- > Rob McBroom > http://www.skurfer.com/ > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Quicksilver" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/blacktree-quicksilver. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
