On Mar 8, 2013, at 9:51 AM, Jacob Kaplan-Moss <ja...@jacobian.org> wrote:
> 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. Crate's search uses ElasticSearch whereas I believe PyPI is just using SQL against the DB. That being said Crate's search could be a lot better still :/ But I'm not an expert on how to get the best search results. > > Jacob > > On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 8:00 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> 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 >> Catalog-SIG@python.org >> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/catalog-sig > _______________________________________________ > Catalog-SIG mailing list > Catalog-SIG@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/catalog-sig ----------------- Donald Stufft PGP: 0x6E3CBCE93372DCFA // 7C6B 7C5D 5E2B 6356 A926 F04F 6E3C BCE9 3372 DCFA
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