Re: Search engine relevance

Robert Collins <[email protected]> Sun, 10 Mar 2013 21:52:27 +1300
Newsgroups gmane.comp.python.catalog
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On 10 March 2013 21:23, Richard Jones <[email protected]> wrote:

> We could probably just use the text search stuff built into postgres,
> rather than the current naive LIKE searching. There is a ranking
> algorithm in place and it does strongly prefer matching the name
> you've entered; it doubly prefers an exact package name match. This
> might solve the AGI problem and could probably produce good results
> using the current ranking algorithm. Not sure. Google's search
> algorithms are far advanced ;-)

tsearch2 is hard to get good results with - we had issues with that
when I was working on Launchpad.

-Rob

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Robert Collins <[email protected]>
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