970373 - Better search results for literal keywords and incomplete keywords

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

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

Description

[Soledad Penades [:sole] [:spenades]]

What problems would this solve?
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Getting better search results when looking for a keyword (or part of it)

Who would use this?
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Developers, all the time

What would users see?
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Better results rather than some other page that might have something to do with the topic but not directly

What would users do? What would happen as a result?
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They would search keywords and would get the results they expect. For example now if I search "installs_allowed" I get four other results before the app manifest page, which is the one which should be the authority here.

Looks like the underscore has been removed and we're looking for "installs allowed" which is pretty different.

Likewise if I look for "requestAnimation" I just get ONE result on something that is relatively tangential to the topic-I should get requestAnimationFrame results too, and in the first position because "requestAnimation" is in the title.

Is there anything else we should know?
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Comment 1

[BMO Automation]

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