[racket-dev] Roogle?

I have an unfinished analysis of searches on
http://docs.racket-lang.org/ Summary points from memory (I don't have
the data in front of me):

  - Most searches are for one word, with frequency decreasing sharply
as number of words increases
  - The most popular search was for list. Who the heck has to look up
list! That perhaps gives some insight into who is using the search
most often (beginning users, I assume)
  - It's quite clear that a significant fraction of searches will get
very poor results from the current search implementation. Anyone
searching for a text phrase or a word that doesn't exactly match a
phrase in the index, for example.

In conclusion, I think adding full text search (e.g. Lucene/Solr)
would have the largest impact on the existing search and this doesn't
even require much implementation work. Pick the low hanging fruit!

N.

On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 4:54 AM, Asumu Takikawa <asumu at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
> A few of us in the lab today were discussing how the Haskell community
> has this nice tool called Hoogle (http://www.haskell.org/hoogle) that
> lets you search Haskell docs by type.
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