[Last call][Design] Search - Relevance

[D John Anderson]

Hi Jeffrey:

The test I did was to type in a whole bunch of events and type text  
into the text control at the bottom of the detail view. I don't  
remember exactly how many Items I tested, but it was less than 10  
events. I just tried it again with different text. I created the  
following items in the following order:

1 John 2 Anderson 3
John Anderson2
asdf asd fasd John asdf asdfasdf Anderson aasdf asdf asfd sadf
test 2 John Anderson test 3
John Anderson

Lucene returns them in the following order:
John Anderson
1 John 2 Anderson 3
test 2 John Anderson test 3
asdf asd fasd John asdf asdfasdf Anderson aasdf asdf asfd sadf
John Anderson2

So in my two trivial tests it seemed useful. Maybe we index titles  
differently from the body text. But like I said earlier, I'm not sure  
we should conclude the general usefulness or complete lack of it by  
such small tests. Leaving it in for Preview would let us get feedback  
from users about it's usefulness, and it doesn't get in the way of  
using Chandler.

John

On Feb 7, 2007, at 12:12 PM, Jeffrey Harris wrote:

> Hi John,
>
>> Consider this situation: Suppose you are looking for items by  
>> searching
>> for "/Search John Anderson". Lucene returns all the items with the  
>> word
>> John followed by the work Anderson with a higher rank than all the  
>> items
>> with words between John and Anderson. This can be a really handy  
>> feature.
>
> If this worked well, I'd be in favor of having relevance sort in
> Preview.  I tried the specific use case you mention, though, and found
> that the search results continue to defy my expectations, which I  
> think
> undermines the argument.
>
> If this is easy to fix, great, but if it's not, lets get it working  
> well
> after Preview.
>
> Sincerely,
> Jeffrey
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