On 27/08/2025 19:06, IOhannes m zmoelnig via Pd-list wrote:
attached you will find one week of sorted query strings (collected from
2025-08-10 to 2025-08-16) that did not return any results.
afaict, this is the data that was asked for.
Thanks!
so now: could anybody tell me what useful information you can extract
from this data? (not just theoretically; what useful info **is** there ?)
esp. what data is there that is useful for an external developer (as
opposed to the maintainers of the deken search)
Why are you not interested in data that is useful for the maintainers of
the deken search?
Clearly people are searching for 'freeverb' - why is it not returning
the freeverb external? The intent of the user is obvious. How can the
tool be updated to better serve the user?
"freeverd~" - soundex and or metaphone search could help the user.
"sigmund" - this could match against a list of internals: "did you mean
sigmund~? It is built in to Pd already and you don't have to install it."
"panorama*" - if I go to deken.puredata.info and search for panorama and
*panorama* in all 3 boxes nothing shows up. This seems like a useful
thread for an external developer to follow up. Maybe people are looking
for spatialization externals? Intriguing.
"opencv" - is there any existing opencv external? Seems like a useful
signal for externals developers.
etc.
This is one week of data and already seems like it could improve the
experience of Pd users who searched during that week. To me it seems
likely that a month or more of data could provide good insights for
improving the Pd ecosystem for end users.
I'm not saying this data should be gospel, or that definite hard
conclusions should be drawn from it. I am saying it's a useful signal
for developers, both yourself as the maintainer of deken, and people
building externals and libraries.
Cheers,
Chris.
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