406427 - Penalize skipped results to allow adaptive learning of shifting preferences

Status: RESOLVED INACTIVE

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Description

[Ed Lee :Mardak]

Higher ranked results are likely higher because of previous adaption to that preference, but if the user decides to start using a different site, we should try to promote the currently-futher-down result to a higher position.

Comment 1

[Ed Lee :Mardak]

Attachment: v1

Penalize everything that matched the search to allow the selected index to quickly overtake currently-higher-ranked entries. Ideally we iterate through the results from 0 up to aIndex and only penalize those, but that potentially takes many cycles, so do this approximation instead.

This helps avoid needing to set up a whole transaction for multiple updates as well.

Sure it'll affect the just-added item as well as everything for drop-down selections, but that's not too bad because the ordering among them doesn't change.

Comment 2

[BMO Automation]

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