521593 - Experimental addon shows better keyword match than non-experimental addons

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

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

Description

[callmejoe007]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/532.0 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/3.0.195.25 Safari/532.0
Build Identifier: all major browsers, IE 7, chrome or firefox

I am browsing the Mozilla addons and I am witnessing some weird behavior.

For example, when I search for download using the default keyword match (see attached image)

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search?q=toolbar&cat=all

Below are the orders of the addons first four addons,  

1. DNSQueries.com Toolbar  ==>Why is this one first? this one has no rating, only 186 weekly downloads, matches no more keywords than #3 or #4 or #5.
2. DuVar.Tv ToolBar              ==>this is experimental addon, why is it 2nd?
3. Image Toolbar                   ==>ok
4. Text size toolbar               ==>ok

Questions
1. Why is #1 & #2 where they are, they are no more relevant than #3 or #4.
2. Should experimental addons be before approved addons?  isn't that a security risk?
3. How is keyword ranking calculated? educate me so that I don't stay mad at the search results? :)

Thanks


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search?q=toolbar&cat=all and look at the listing.

Actual Results:  
Experimental addons which are no more relevant are ranked higher than approved addons

Expected Results:  
Approved addons should have better keyword match than Experimental, if relevance is the same

Comment 1

[Jorge Villalobos [:jorgev] (he/him)]

The AMO search was recently rewritten, and this issue seems fixed now. Please reopen if you still see it.