1336736 - Can't find anything useful searching for options_ui

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Developer Documentation Graveyard :: Add-ons, defect)

Description

[Mindaugas <LA-MJ>]

Expected top result:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/WebExtensions/manifest.json/options_ui

Actual results with addons tag selected: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/search?q=options_ui&topic=api&topic=addons&topic=css&topic=html&topic=js&topic=apps&topic=webdev

Not a single page related to WebExtensions on the first result page

Comment 1

[Kris Maglione [:kmag]]

We had this problem with Google results before, because of the .json in the URL matching a robots.txt include pattern.

Comment 2

[John Whitlock [:jwhitlock]]

The problem is with the MDN site search, not with Google results.

If you expand the search to "All Topics", it is the first result:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/search?q=options_ui&none=none

Site search is driven by tags, and the options_ui page doesn't have any. I think it would make sense to appear under "Add-ons and Extensions", which would require tagging the page with Add-ons, Extensions, or Plugins

Comment 3

[Will Bamberg [:wbamberg]]

Thanks for filing this LA-MJ. I've added some tags for all the manifest keys, so they should show up if you select "Add-ons & Extensions" in Topics.

I think the default topics should be expanded to include Add-ons (and maybe WebExtensions too) I've filed bug 1337461 for this.

Basing search entirely on tagging is not ideal though: tagging is a pain to do and is easy to forget or get wrong. We have a pretty consistent site structure, and if search included everything under "/Add-ons" when you selected "Add-ons" in Topics, this would all just work.

Florian linked above to bug 963811, which covers this, especially bug 963811, comment 4.

Comment 4

[Will Bamberg [:wbamberg]]

Adding tags and bug 1337461 fixed this.