446467 - Investigate weighting add-ons' names higher than their description text

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(addons.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Public Pages, defect)

Description

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

Other bugs of interest: bug 378657 and bug 291413.

We've talked about this for a while, but never had a bug for it, so here goes.

We should probably look at weighting the add-ons' names higher than their description text, so that names take precedence if/when it comes down to an SQL tie--if such a thing exists? (post bug 378657, I might be categorizing the way our search works incorrectly).

As an example, try searching for "Gnome Classic", which currently shows up on the 3rd page of https://preview.addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search?q=gnome+classic&cat=all; I think this might be because the words "gnome" and "classic" appear several times in competing results' description text

Comment 1

[Sebastian Hengst [:aryx] (needinfo me if it's about an intermittent or backout)]

"Gnome" > "Gnome Classic" is second. IMHO fixed.

Comment 2

[Fred Wenzel [:wenzel]]

Agreed -- we should not over-engineer this. Our search algorithm is performing quite well in its current form (and Stephen filed this before it was implemented). Thanks for the heads-up, Arch.

Comment 3

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

Verified FIXED.