752678 - [betafarm] Suggest weighting search results beyond Google defaults

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Websites :: mozillalabs.com, defect)

Description

[Rebecca Billings [:rbillings]]

Currently the Betafarm search module will arrange search results as Google sees fit. Suggest that it places more weight on projects, for example, than people or blog posts.

1) https://mozillalabs-dev.allizom.org/en-US/search/?q=demo


expected: Projects with 'demo' in them, blog posts, people results
actual: blog posts, projects, more blog posts

Comment 1

[Ben (:bensternthal)]

I will research this and see if its something we can do.

Comment 2

[Ben (:bensternthal)]

Looks like there is no 100% way to do this (easily) but I was able to adjust this and I think its working close to what you are requesting.

I adjusted this so "project" is heavily weighted, this should bubble matching projects higher. You can test this: https://mozillalabs.com/en-US/search/?q=demo Note demoparty now comes up first.

Long story for reference:
The search engine keywords in google site search were "experiment research web innovation apps identity mozilla firefox" so items with those terms were weighted higher, this looks to be mostly blog posts.

I changed the search engine keywords to just be "projects". This should weight search results in favor of our projects.

Comment 3

[Rebecca Billings [:rbillings]]

Verified results are weight correctly between 'all' and the different search tabs.