Search result order

10 Jan 2014

Probably not the highest priority, but something for the intern:

When searching something on the mbed site, the result order is fairly bad. Simple example, search for RTOS: http://mbed.org/search/?type=&q=rtos. How should it be? Closer to this: https://www.google.nl/search?hl=nl&q=site%3Ambed.org+rtos. (Please do not integrate google to search on the site, pretty much everytime I have seen it that ends up bad).

I think the search results would be alot better if the 'relevance' was scaled: Handbook pages preferred, then cookbook, blog posts, wiki/forum/questions. Code somewhere at the bottom, especially because we also have a code search.

And when that intern is busy anyway, how come if I select only wiki pages in the search, the top result is: http://mbed.org/users/leihen/code/MultiThreadingHTTPServer/wiki/Homepage. How does the search algorithm consider that more relevant than the handbook page for example?