[Last call][Design] Search - Relevance

[D John Anderson]

On Feb 7, 2007, at 2:28 PM, Jeffrey Harris wrote:

> Hi John,
>
>> 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
>
> Ranking definitely isn't working for me on the trunk, but perhaps I'm
> seeing different behavior from you.  I just did another search, and a
> nagging suspicion was confirmed:  The sort I'm seeing is by creation
> time, with spurious linearly degrading ranking being rendered.   
> This is
> running r13076 on Win32.  Perhaps something's off on Windows?

That's interesting. I just tried the above test on XP and got the  
same result as I did before on Mac. I used revision 13079. This  
example doesn't seem like it's sorted by creation time.

Can you try the example above and see if you get a different result  
than I do?

John