Small Issue: Search function issues: search term fail

[Brett_Reilly]

The addons store search function is malfunctioning. Why would paraphrase redirect to passphrase?

A small but very frustrating issue.

[juraj.masiar]

You mean you search one thing but it will find totally different thing?

AMO search relevance ranking

AMO uses elasticsearch for it’s ranking of the search term vs. the content, with a weighting on users, and an additional boost for add-ons in the recommended extensions programme. One of the ways the search term is broken down and analysed is into trigrams. “Stock” would be broken down into “Sto”, “toc”, “ock” - it’s the “ock” that’s matching against block (and clock). Now, these matches wouldn’t usually be given enough weight vs. a full words to prioritize them that much, but the stock relat…