On Sat, Oct 13, 2018 at 1:15 AM Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se> wrote:
Is is possible to add synonyms (in some way, or similar functionality) to the docs search in order to promote content? I just searched for TLS in the v10 docs and the number one hit, out of meagre 7 in total, is the 9.1.17 release notes. If I instead search for SSL there are 130 hits with the first one being the relevant page. Personally I know the reason for this, but a newcomer is unlikely to.
We don't have the ability to do this specifically for the docs search, but we could do it globally across either all the website search or even all the website + all the archives. A bit of a pain to reindex the archives (especially since I just did it a couple of days ago, see note on -www about downtime), but the website part should be quick. It's just a tsearch synonym dictionary...
If we do want to do that, we may want to give some thought to if we should add any more synonoyms at the same time?
Where we use terminology which is different from what is commonly used, it wouldn’t hurt to point users in the right direction. Is it enough to add is as another indexterm as in the below, or would it require more invasive changes?
Docs search is freetext based, on the generated HTML only. There's a long standing TODO to try to do something better based on the structured data we have, but nothing's been done so far. It's probably easier now with XML, but the question is how much easier...
