Hi Antoine - Yes, PyPI's search engine is rather simplistic, I think that's a pretty well-known problem.
For the time being you might try Crate instead (crate.io); I've found its search engine to be much much better. Jacob On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 8:00 AM, Antoine Pitrou <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello, > > It seems the PyPI search engine is quite crude and doesn't try to make the > results relevant at all. > For example, if I'm trying to search "agi" in the hope of finding modules > relevant to the Asterisk Gateway Interface (nicknamed "AGI"), I get the > following results: > > https://pypi.python.org/pypi?%3Aaction=search&term=agi&submit=search > > As you can see, a large number of results pop up simply because they contain > the word "magic", which apparently is considered to match the "agi" request. > Clearly either the selection or the weighting algorithm isn't very efficient > here. > > Regards > > Antoine. > > > _______________________________________________ > Catalog-SIG mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/catalog-sig _______________________________________________ Catalog-SIG mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/catalog-sig
