1100394 - Implement simple_query_string in Advanced Search

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(support.mozilla.org :: Search, defect, P2)

Description

[Ricky Rosario [:rrosario, :r1cky]]

Now that we have two separate views/forms/urls for simple search (end user focused) and advanced search (contributor focused), we can do awesome things.

Contributors want a more powerful search query parser. Input uses simple_query_search:
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Input/Search_syntax

This is something that contributors have recently requested since we stopped allowing Google to index a lot of our content.

Let's do it!

Comment 1

[Ricky Rosario [:rrosario, :r1cky]]

doing this starting today or so

Comment 2

[Ricky Rosario [:rrosario, :r1cky]]

See bug 794083 for more details.

Comment 4

[Ricky Rosario [:rrosario, :r1cky]]

The docs for the version of ES we use:
http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/0.90/query-dsl-simple-query-string-query.html

An example on how fjord does it:
https://github.com/mozilla/fjord/blob/430c462defb9a215448b961f6fcfa94b3de55120/fjord/analytics/views.py#L274

Comment 5

[Mike Kaply [:mkaply]]

> since we stopped allowing Google to index a lot of our content.

Can you elaborate on that?

Comment 6

[Ricky Rosario [:rrosario, :r1cky]]

(In reply to Mike Kaply (:mkaply) from comment #5)
> > since we stopped allowing Google to index a lot of our content.
> 
> Can you elaborate on that?

See bug 1081933.

Kadir can elaborate more, but apparently it has improved our helpfulness rating a bunch for people coming from Google. They no longer land on random questions that aren't solved and, therefore, not helpful at all to our end users.

Comment 7

[Alice Wyman]

(In reply to Ricky Rosario [:rrosario, :r1cky] from comment #6)
> (In reply to Mike Kaply (:mkaply) from comment #5)
> > > since we stopped allowing Google to index a lot of our content.
> > 
> > Can you elaborate on that?
> 
> See bug 1081933.
> 
> Kadir can elaborate more, but apparently it has improved our helpfulness
> rating a bunch for people coming from Google. They no longer land on random
> questions that aren't solved and, therefore, not helpful at all to our end
> users.

Some contributors (including me) are not happy with that change since SuMo's Advanced search is not good.  Related discussion:
https://support.mozilla.org/forums/contributors/710806 Change in support forum threads indexed by Google or other search engines: Only solved threads will be shown

Comment 8

[Ricky Rosario [:rrosario, :r1cky]]

In a pull request:
https://github.com/mozilla/kitsune/pull/2227

Comment 9

[Ricky Rosario [:rrosario, :r1cky]]

Landed on master:
https://github.com/mozilla/kitsune/commit/88c4fb051c4ab6d93e693441316b2e336be737da

Comment 10

[Ricky Rosario [:rrosario, :r1cky]]

The documentation has been submitted for review in the KB:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/using-advanced-search

Comment 11

[Ricky Rosario [:rrosario, :r1cky]]

This was deployed to prod.

Comment 13

[Ricky Rosario [:rrosario, :r1cky]]

This was about 2pts.