554935 - Searching on weather yields strange results

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 567788

(addons.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Search, defect)

Description

[Mike Kaply [:mkaply]]

I'm trying to understand how AMO gets its search results.

I know Brand Thunder is a company I work for, but this is a fair question.

I search on Weather.

Our product which has the title:

 Weather Interactive Theme - The only theme that changes with the weather!  by Brand Thunder

Is on the second page, half way down.

Things on the first page:

uToolbar
aphotoquest.com toolbar
sellover classified toolbar
live sport streaming

you get the picture

And most of these are experimental addons

What is AMO actually searching to get these results?

Comment 1

[Mike Kaply [:mkaply]]

Sorry, those were third page.

On first page:

Quicksearchbar
advanced dork
speed dial
rambler-assistant

Same question though.

Where are these coming from?

rambler has one mention of weather in it's description

Shouldn't weather in the title be a better search term?

Comment 2

[Dave Dash [:davedash, :dd] (assign all bugs to mbrandt)]

Hi,

Could you fill out the "URL" field.  Use the URL of the search results page, and I'll take a look.

Thanks.

-d