[task] Show node matches before comment matches in search results
ax <[email protected]> Sat, 29 Nov 2003 23:40:33 +0100
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Project: User experience Version: <none> Component: usability Category: tasks Priority: normal Assigned to: Anonymous Reported by: joe lombardo Updated by: ax Status: active patch in for_review [#]_ .. [#] http://cvs.drupal.org/viewcvs/contributions/for_review/0174.HEAD.ax.search.module_improvements.patch ax Previous comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ July 9, 2003 - 23:24 : joe lombardo Up for discussion, but it seems to me that whenever I do a search on drupal.org or drop.org, I scroll past the matching comments to see if there are any node matches first. If I don't find what I'm looking for in a node, I then look in the comments results. Here's the order I suggest showing the results groupings: 1. Users - if the query has any matching user's in the results set, it is likely that the searcher was looking for that user. 2. Nodes - Nodes contain the essence of the site. My belief is that a book page, or blog entry that matches the query is likely to be more useful to the researcher than a comment that matches the query. 3. Comments - While there are exceptions, most comments are not information rich, so I think they should be displayed last. My $.02, - Joe ------------------------------------------------------------------------ July 10, 2003 - 01:49 : cczona +1 Helpful My personal preference is for Nodes to also be before Users, but anything that moves Comments beneath Nodes would be a useability improvement. By their sheer number , Comment matches seem to dominate search results yet even when one of the found comments does contain the info you seek it's much harder to recognize that one because comment titles are less often used as a capsule description/summary of their content. So comments not only are less likely to be sources of quality information, a highly relevant match (of any type) it also more likely to be overlooked when it is amidst or beneath so many poor matches. On a related note: the UI could also make it clearer how results are being ordered (type, relevance) and make it easier to jump right to the most relevant matches among long result lists. For instance, right now it says: "Search Results\nMatching comments ranked in order of relevance:" How about something more like this instead: Search Results In: Users [1], Nodes [2], Comments [3] > Users (ranked by relevance): ... > Nodes (ranked by relevance): etc. [1] http://drupal.org/#users [2] http://drupal.org/#nodes [3] http://drupal.org/#comments ------------------------------------------------------------------------ November 29, 2003 - 16:51 : kennysto Another voice in support of nodes b4 comments -- View: http://drupal.org/node/view/2235 Edit: http://drupal.org/project/comments/add/2235 -- [ Drupal user list | http://list.drupal.org/ ] [ http://lists.drupal.org/options/drupal-user/gcpdu-drupal-user%40gmane.org ]