Re: Search engine relevance

On Mar 8, 2013, at 9:51 AM, Jacob Kaplan-Moss <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> 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.
>> 
>> 
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