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Break relevance ties by quality #1236

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dfabulich opened this issue Dec 26, 2024 · 0 comments
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Break relevance ties by quality #1236

dfabulich opened this issue Dec 26, 2024 · 0 comments
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Search IFDB for "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy." https://ifdb.org/search?searchbar=the+hitchhiker%27s+guide+to+the+galaxy

There are two games named "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy." One of them is the beloved Infocom game. The other is a game in BASIC written in 1981 by Bob Chappell.

Both of them are equally relevant to "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy." (Their relevance score is both 1.)

Actual: We show Bob Chappell's game first
Expected: When relevance is tied, we should show the "better" result first, e.g. sorting games by starsort after sorting by relevance.

For members, we can sort by frequent fiction; for tags, we can sort by most games. For other types, we don't have a great way to sort by quality, so maybe just sorting by relevance is "good enough."

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