Re: Search engine relevance
Robert Collins <[email protected]> Sun, 10 Mar 2013 21:52:27 +1300
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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 -- Robert Collins <[email protected]> Distinguished Technologist HP Cloud Services