[Catalog-sig] Search engine relevance

[Antoine Pitrou]

Hello,

It seems the PyPI search engine is quite crude and doesn't try to make the
results relevant at all.
For example, if I'm trying to search "agi" in the hope of finding modules
relevant to the Asterisk Gateway Interface (nicknamed "AGI"), I get the
following results:

https://pypi.python.org/pypi?%3Aaction=search&term=agi&submit=search

As you can see, a large number of results pop up simply because they contain
the word "magic", which apparently is considered to match the "agi" request.
Clearly either the selection or the weighting algorithm isn't very efficient
here.

Regards

Antoine.