[Catalog-sig] Search engine relevance

[Yuval Greenfield]

https://crate.io/?has_releases=on&q=agi

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On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 6:51 AM, Jacob Kaplan-Moss <jacob at jacobian.org>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.
>
> Jacob
>
> On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 8:00 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net>
> 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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