Re: Categorizing search results

On 2010-12-29, at 3:40 AM, Hannes Magnusson wrote: > Hi > > I've looked into improving the search to also provide categorization > and descriptions. > ... > I killed the actual order-by-score, and also lowered the minScore > value (didn't work so great for long function/variable names where you > typed only few characters..). That should probably be updated if we > decide to commit this. > ... > What do you guys think, is it worth perusing? > Its not searching in the descriptions.. Unsure if its worth it.. Wow! I should have looked at this before my previous response. I applied your patch. Cool stuff! I think this is worth pursuing. Not too sure where it sits in terms of priority though. There is a fair bit more work here. If I search for 'str', I no longer see the matching str* functions first. It is not obvious how to determine the most relevant results. By grouping them into categories we are forced into putting lower scoring matches before higher scoring matches in a different category. What do you think about my poor-man's categorization? ...I think there is also the risk of hitting the user with too much information and visual noise. Regarding the option in my.php, it's not something I would use. I suspect that most users would just go with the default. Stew