[racket-dev] search (was Roogle?)

This matches my understanding.

N.

On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 8:33 PM, Matthias Felleisen <matthias at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
>
> So where does this leave us:
>
> 1. with very little data about real searches, which happen locally, via DrRacket  (would it matter if we could do a Guillaume-style data collection for a few dozen students?)
>
> 2. with an understood deficit on our search; I haven't seen anyone deny this
>
> 3. a few options on improving search when we're on-line via JS calls to search engines (this clearly requires some experimentation before we commit)
>
> 4a. John's wonderful idea of search the examples in our docs. Well, I imagine he's searching for all one-argument functions, runs them on the example, and produces the list of functions that compute acceptable results. Now, if we hashed these searches, we get a crowd-sourcing problem -- perhaps. The more users/students search for pure functions, the better we get. Perhaps.
>
> 4b. and we know that once text search is incorporated we may wish to look for some form of semantic search.
>
> Did I overlook something? -- Matthias