I have an unfinished analysis of searches on http://docs.racket-lang.org/ Summary points from memory (I don't have the data in front of me):
- Most searches are for one word, with frequency decreasing sharply as number of words increases - The most popular search was for list. Who the heck has to look up list! That perhaps gives some insight into who is using the search most often (beginning users, I assume) - It's quite clear that a significant fraction of searches will get very poor results from the current search implementation. Anyone searching for a text phrase or a word that doesn't exactly match a phrase in the index, for example. In conclusion, I think adding full text search (e.g. Lucene/Solr) would have the largest impact on the existing search and this doesn't even require much implementation work. Pick the low hanging fruit! N. On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 4:54 AM, Asumu Takikawa <as...@ccs.neu.edu> wrote: > A few of us in the lab today were discussing how the Haskell community > has this nice tool called Hoogle (http://www.haskell.org/hoogle) that > lets you search Haskell docs by type. ... _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/dev
