Re: Pathological case for Debian packages search page

[Josip Rodin <joy@gkvk.hr>]

On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 06:18:30PM -0500, Daniel Burrows wrote:
> > This package:
> > 	http://packages.debian.org/unstable/editors/the.html
> > 
> > never shows up when you search for "the" in
> > 	http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages
> > 
> > I assume it's because the search engine ignores common words like "the"
> > :-) Also, because the BTS uses the search engine to link to the package
> > pages, the package link on the BTS page for "the" will never turn up
> > anything.
> > 
> > Now just think of all those poor people who are searching for "the" editor
> > on Google... :-P
> 
>   Frankly, I think that's the the editor's fault for picking the, maybe the
> most common word in English, as the name for the.  It makes sentences
> about the like this one appear to be missing words when they talk about
> the.
> 
>   Maybe the the package should be renamed to "the-editor" to remove
> the confusion.  That won't help confusion about searching for the when
> the the you mean is not the the the search engine thinks you mean.

The package search engine is simply buggy here, it's not used for phrases so
it shouldn't exclude common words.

Cf. #102625.

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