On Thu, 2010-04-08 at 09:22 -0700, panman wrote: > The way I wrote that was a little confusing. My meaning was (if I can do > better this time) a search for debian+howto+notion will include any > howto's for debian where someone had a notion since it's a common > english word. Doing a search for various terms+notion generally finds > hits from the presence of a sentence in the page about the notion of > something or other. You're absolutely right, a legitimate page about a > project called notion should rise above that sort of thing. > > I was not however really thinking of the legitimate site for the > project. Consider a search for statusbar+notion, lua+notion, > maximized+notion, keybindings+notion. The point is notion doesn't do a > very good job of focusing the hits in on this project. A post someone > makes on their blog regarding their experiences with notion containing > the exact solution some future user is looking for could be very > difficult to find. > > I found this to be the case with the name ion, without the '3' it's a > very bad filter, and since people often drop the '3' in discussions > about it, with the 3 it's a very bad filter. >
hmmm, we really should contact the "awesome" guys and ask them how they do it...
