Sort of Not So Relevant Search Results on DRUPAL.ORG [#1863256]

Problem/Motivation

it seems as of a month or two ago, when searching the drupal website, for say a module's project page, that the most relevant results were displayed first, and now, not so. For example, searching for WYSIWYG would return generally the project at the top, or a quick drill-down using the convenient filters would get you right where you want to go.

Proposed resolution

un do what ever was done to the drupal search

Remaining tasks

(reviews needed, tests to be written or run, documentation to be written, etc.)

User interface changes

(new or changed features/functionality in the user interface, modules added or removed, changes to URL paths, changes to user interface text)

API changes

(API changes/additions that would affect module, install profile, and theme developers, including examples of before/after code if appropriate)

Original report by [username]

// Text of original report here.
(for legacy issues whose initial post was not the issue summary)

Comments

Comment #1

trevorleenc CreditAttribution: trevorleenc commented 10 December 2012 at 22:53

I had originally found this forum post: http://drupal.org/node/1843322

But it seems to have gone un-noticed because it wasn't posted in the right place.

Comment #2

Kevin Morse CreditAttribution: Kevin Morse commented 2 May 2013 at 05:19

Is this the right place to bring this up again?

The search function on Drupal.org is ABSOLUTELY useless.

http://drupal.org/search/site/commerce returns no link to the Commerce module
http://drupal.org/search/site/views cannot find the Views module.

Refine searches to modules only http://drupal.org/search/site/views?f[0]=ss_meta_type%3Amodule and still nothing.

Change to sort by Most installed and the page refresh happens but it just shows Relevancy again.

Forget Drupal 8 if we can't even have a working Search function on drupal.org

Comment #3

kingandy CreditAttribution: kingandy commented 2 May 2013 at 08:46

Hmm, I was going to suggest using the dedicated module search mechanism if you know you're looking for a module, but it turns out if you type "Views" into the search box Views actually vanishes from the top position ... dropped down to page 7 (at time of writing).

Thinking about it, I almost never use the site search. I either go to Google with a "site:drupal.org" modifier or just take a best guess at the module name and hit http://drupal.org/project/XXX. Not sure whether this says more about me or the site search.

Comment #4

kingandy CreditAttribution: kingandy commented 2 May 2013 at 08:51

Ah, there seems to be an issue with accepting the "Most Installed" option from the Sort By box (both on the site search and the module search). Whenever I submit the form with this option, it gets discarded. Linking directly to (eg) http://drupal.org/project/modules/Views?solrsort=iss_project_release_usa... produces the expected result so I expect this is a bug in the validation/submit function for that form.

Comment #5

Kevin Morse CreditAttribution: Kevin Morse commented 5 May 2013 at 04:17

Should I file a separate bug about the Most Installed option?

I am using a similar strategy to find modules as you mentioned but it's quite pathetic that the built in search does not even work.

Comment #6

dddave CreditAttribution: dddave commented 5 May 2013 at 21:48

#1376002: Download & Extend: sorting by "most installed" does not work properly
#1939112: Module list sort functionality does not appear to be working.

Comment #7

dddave CreditAttribution: dddave commented 7 May 2013 at 14:04

Also closed #1936076: Search relevancy as a dupe. But I somehow have in the back of my mind another major issue about this problem...

Comment #8

dddave CreditAttribution: dddave commented 7 May 2013 at 14:07

#1989056: Search by relevancy seems to be broken. and #1963280: Search Produces ... hmmm, see below

Comment #9

Kevin Morse CreditAttribution: Kevin Morse commented 7 May 2013 at 16:47

Sorry @dddave, I totally should have checked if there was a bug filed already about that other issue.

Is it a correct assumption to say that the duplicate bug reports and this one have all been from within the last 6 months so there's a chance this could have been a regression in the search code at some recent time? I've been in and out of Drupal for the past two years or so and I don't ever remember search being this useless.

Comment #10

dddave CreditAttribution: dddave commented 7 May 2013 at 17:40

My pretty uneducated guess is that all the works to upgrade d.org to Drupal7 have messed with the search. I'm also not sure if this shouldn't be in the server admin queue as part of the Solr component...

This really could need some input from somebody more in on all the technical internals.

Comment #11

jstoller

he/him

CreditAttribution: jstoller commented 14 May 2013 at 16:46

Priority:

Normal

» Major

I've noticed this for a little while now. Anytime I try to search on the modules page with sort by relevancy (my most used option), it automatically changes to sort by most installed. I'm bumping up the priority on this. I don't know about anyone else, but this has pretty much cut the utility of D.O in half for me.