Search engine relevance
Antoine Pitrou <[email protected]> Fri, 8 Mar 2013 14:00:40 +0000 (UTC)
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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.