Re: introducing deken trends

IOhannes m zmoelnig via Pd-list <[email protected]> Thu, 28 Aug 2025 11:44:08 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.multimedia.puredata.general
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 >> 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?

simple: because that is practically only me (kudos to you of course, but 
in reality there have not been many contributions by others in the last 
decade) and I do not need to *publish* statistics about the queries, 
because i can access them just so.
obviously i haven't done that myself, so this entire thread is a good 
motivation :-)

but if I were to invest time to publish such data, I would like to see 
benefits for other people that they can act on (short of nagging other 
people).

On 8/28/25 10:18, Christof Ressi wrote:
>> 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?
 >
> Yes. I think this is a good argument for using wildcard search by 
> default. We can add a checkbox for people who only want exact matches.

indeed.
i do want people to be able to do exact matches (with wildcards and what 
not).
but allowing the user to check whether they want to do a fuzzy search or 
an exact search sounds like the best idea.

should a fuzzy search also allow for soundex?
(that's going to be more tricky. there's a tcl module in the tcllib, but 
we don't ship this with Pd; if we want to do the soundex matching on the 
server, we need to signal that in the query... it's easy, but right now 
the query is even trivial :-))

gfdmsr
IOhannes

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