Thread:Talk:Search/LiquidThreads archive/'Old search' is better/reply (18)

Thanks for the defence, but Shawn's right; its a relatively obvious optimization. Its something that's "been on the list" for a long time but it kept getting lower and lower under as we'd been in beta and no complained about quality in a way that this would have caught. I frankly forgot about it.

As far as intentionally disregard, if anyone did any disregarding, it was me. I'd prefer to characterize what I did in this case as getting snowblinded by all the (probably) speculative features to improve search quality that I didn't give this one as much weight as it deserves. But there isn't a clear line between that and intentionally disregard. It did, after all, make it onto my list, just too low.

I will admit to getting mired in a pet issue of mine, highlighting. The highlighter wasn't going to support it so I spent quite a bit of time on it. In fact, the highlighter used on enwiki and commons right now does prefer snippets from the beginning of the article. But I got distracted by the snippet issue and didn't cover the scoring issue.

Anyway, I'm going to go fiddle with positional boosts now. Depending on how that goes you'll get a solution soon.