Ranking for "night-owl-vscode-theme" search in marketplace doesn't return obvious results

[auchenberg]

When searching for night-owl-vscode-theme in the marketplace the ranking doesn't return obvious extensions as the priority.

Search ranking should factor in install count / usage.

See Twitter thread, https://mobile.twitter.com/bslobodin/status/1102693377886216198

[bslobodin]

Could it be as simple as README needing to be updated to search for something else, like night-owl, which is the name specified for the package?

I noticed night-owl-vscode-theme isn't a thing that appears in the name, or keywords, only appearing as part of the url.

[usernamehw]

duplicate of #42890 ?

[kesane-msft]

We do factor in install count and rating of the extension while returning the search results from the Marketplace. However that comes into picture when the search term is part of the extension display name. In this case whenever we use night-owl-vscode-theme SQL Full Text Search (FTS) doesn't find the vscode and theme words in the display name and hence the install count / rating calculations don't kick in.

I was interested in understanding why the term night-owl-vscode-theme was used for searching for extensions, as against night owl? Reason being we are onboarding to use Azure Search in the Marketplace and we understanding the use cases / scenarios will help us tweak our search indexes to give better / expected search results.

[bslobodin]

@kesane-msft am wondering that myself, in retrospect, as I could only find that term in the README, and not in the package itself, hence sdras/night-owl-vscode-theme#173.

[kesane-msft]

@bslobodin , got it. Thanks! I was wondering if it had anything to do with the github repo name. :)

[isidorn]

Upstream issue microsoft/vsmarketplace#154

[isidorn]

These results actually look better now. Thus closing.
If you have more recent examples where extension search is not good please let us know. Thank you!