Closed
Bug 1148764
Opened 10 years ago
Closed 9 years ago
Yahoo search results top link is to MDN search results
Categories
(developer.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Search, enhancement)
Tracking
(Not tracked)
RESOLVED
WORKSFORME
People
(Reporter: hoosteeno, Unassigned)
References
Details
(Whiteboard: [specification][type:bug])
Attachments
(2 files)
What did you do?
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1. Set up Yahoo! as default search provider in Firefox
2. Use browser search to search for "css font color"
What happened?
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The top result (from MDN) is a widget; its top link is to a page of MDN search results. This makes it seem like the most relevant, highest-weighted search result. But it's not: People looking for "css font color" want search results about that linking to pages about that -- not search results about that linking to pages of search results about that.
What should have happened?
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The MDN search results link should not be presented as the most relevant/likely link. It should be pushed to the bottom of the widget or somehow de-emphasized.
Is there anything else we should know?
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See 2 attachments for an illustration. The first shows how this "more results" feature appears in Yahoo search results, and the second shows how the "more results" feature appears in a competitor's search results. The key difference is how prominent "more results" link is.
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Comment 1•10 years ago
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Comment 2•10 years ago
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Comment 3•10 years ago
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In comment 1, the top result (which uses a larger font than the others) links to this page:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/search?q=css%20background%20color
The most relevant result is not that page of search results, but the very first result on that page:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/background-color
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Comment 4•10 years ago
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Kev, is this something you can help with?
Blocks: 1140004
Flags: needinfo?(kev)
Updated•10 years ago
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Severity: normal → enhancement
Component: General → Search
Comment 5•9 years ago
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MDN results were removed waaaaaay back, so marking this as WFM.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 9 years ago
Flags: needinfo?(kev)
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
Updated•5 years ago
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Product: developer.mozilla.org → developer.mozilla.org Graveyard
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