BTW, I reported a very similar problems in this bug: https://github.com/CanonicalLtd/jujucharms.com/issues/192
On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 10:18 AM Uros Jovanovic < uros.jovano...@canonical.com> wrote: > Hi Tom, > > We currently bump the recommended charms over the community ones. The > reason other shows is due to using N-grams (3-N) in search and the ranking > logic using that puts recommended charms over the non-recommended ones. And > we're not only searching over names of charms but a bunch of content that a > charm has. > > The system works relatively well for recommended charms if you know the > name (or close to what name is), but not in cases where a name is long and > the charm is only in community space. That's why you get better results > with short query vs a longer one. > > We're working on providing better search results in the following weeks. > > > > > On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 2:18 PM, Tom Barber <t...@analytical-labs.com> > wrote: > >> Cross posted from IRC: >> >> Hello folks, >> >> I have a gripe about the charm store search. Mostly because its really >> badly weighted towards recommended charms, and finding what you(an end user >> wants is really hard unless they know what they are doing). >> >> Take this example: >> >> https://jujucharms.com/q/pentaho >> >> Now I'm writing a charm called Pentaho Data Integration, so why do I have >> to scroll past 55 recommended charms that have nothing to do with what I >> have looked for? >> >> But >> >> https://jujucharms.com/q/etl >> >> Shows me exactly what I need at the top, with no recommended charms >> blocking the view. >> >> So I guess its weighted towards tags, then names, sorta. >> >> Im not against recommended charms being dumped at the top, they are >> recommended after all but it appears the ranking could be vastly improved. >> >> Off the top of my head a ranking combo of something like, keyword >> relevance, recommended vs non recommended, times deployed, age, tags and >> last updated. would give a half decent weighting for the charms and would >> hopefully stop 55 unrelated charms appearing at the top of the list. >> >> Now I guess, I could dump pentaho in as a tag to get me top of the SEO >> rankings, but it seems like generally the method could be improved as the >> amount of charms increases, quite plausibly using something like Apache >> Nutch to crawl the available charms and build a proper search facility >> would improve things. >> >> Cheers >> >> Tom >> >> >> -------------- >> >> Director Meteorite.bi - Saiku Analytics Founder >> Tel: +44(0)5603641316 >> >> (Thanks to the Saiku community we reached our Kickstart >> <http://kickstarter.com/projects/2117053714/saiku-reporting-interactive-report-designer/> >> goal, but you can always help by sponsoring the project >> <http://www.meteorite.bi/products/saiku/sponsorship>) >> >> -- >> Juju mailing list >> Juju@lists.ubuntu.com >> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: >> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/juju >> >> > -- > Juju mailing list > Juju@lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/juju >
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