On May 22, 2007, at 5:24 PM, Mathias Schindler wrote:
On 5/22/07, Robert Stojnic rainmansr@gmail.com wrote:
- improved scoring. Default lucene scoring favors short
articles, I tried to make scoring as relevant to wikipedia as possible. Good test is entering "commodity" into search.
Hmmm. Searching for "Noam Chomsky" gives me a rather strange result. Why is [[Noam Chomsky]] only at #4 in the results?
I got similar results for [[Thomas Jefferson]].
Seems easy to fix by giving a bit of a scoring boost to exact title matches?
Normally the exact title match should come first, though I suppose there might be exceptions.