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The Monday 2007-05-14 at 12:20 +0100, Benji Weber wrote:

> 
> Neither found more, in each case the top 20 results only were shown.
> The results in the main repository were being ranked higher because
> they had more search term matches in the package name, the summary,
> and the files contained in the package. Hence the "openoffice" package
> from the build service repository was being dropped off the bottom.


Ah, I see. The search finds many, but only the top found are shown.


> btw there are over 300 packages matching openoffice either in the
> name, filelists, or summary.
> 
> I have adjusted the ranking so this case will work better
> 
> http://benjiweber.co.uk:8080/webpin/index.jsp?searchTerm=openoffice
> 
> will now show results from all 3 repositories. 

Yes, I just tried.

> Also things like
> 
> http://benjiweber.co.uk:8080/webpin/index.jsp?searchTerm=nx
> 
> will work better
> 
> Adding result paging would be possible, but I don't know of anyone who
> actually bothers to look at multiple pages of results so it's probably
> better to improve the ranking system where you spot problems like
> this.

A toggle to show all results? Or to show top 20, top 50, top 120, say?

> In the future with the software portal project we'll have a better
> metric - user rating to apply to search results.

It is indeed a very usefull tool. I have been following the mesages about 
it for some time, but never actually tried till today. I hope to see it 
growing ;-)

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Cheers,
       Carlos E. R.
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