Search ranking decisions are nearly impossible to get 'right'
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I think, a very good illustration of why it is so difficult to make some of these decisions like to why it's almost absurd to expect to expect people to be held accountable for some of these things that are almost impossible.
Episode 82: Ranking the Stars (episode page, opens in a new tab) 00:31:02 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)
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Summary
After a Podcast Index search-result change (from a pull request) drew criticism, Dave explains the old debate: should search show the most popular result or the exact title match? Either way someone is unhappy, so it's almost absurd to hold people accountable for decisions like this.
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Episode 82: Ranking the Stars (episode page, opens in a new tab) 00:32:56 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)
Why, if this, if this is there is an exact match? Why would that ever not be the first result, because it's literally the exact match?
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