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gigablast coder here. i noticed if you search for 'pyopengl glclipplane' it gets it. ('python' does not occur anywhere on the page!) i think this is a synonym i
by gbmatt 6y ago
gigablast coder here. i noticed if you search for 'pyopengl glclipplane' it gets it. ('python' does not occur anywhere on the page!) i think this is a synonym issue. 'opengl python' should be synonymous with 'pyopengl'. i think google gets this because they have billions of queries from which to derive synonyms. i'll be adding more synonyms to gigablast over time and hope to close this synonym gap.
that being said, i think 90% of the bad search results come from the index being too small (straight up lacking the best web page), or not having good enough synonyms.
- Imnimo 6y agoWhile that's a reasonable explanation, the top result from private.sh (the opengl.org homepage) also does not include "python" anywhere on the page. I would expect the top result to at least be something relevant to glclipplane. I think this is both an issue of retrieval but also of ranking - the opengl homepage is a very generic result which is unlikely to have much salience to a query with other specific search terms.