search results contain irrelevant entries

Bug #402302 reported by Swetha
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
MVHub
Confirmed
Low
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Bug Description

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  affects mvhub
  importance low
  security no
  status confirmed
  tag defect usabilty
  done

Files:
 lib-mvhub/lib/MVHub/Guide.pm
  app-mvhub/conf/templates/html/agency_results.tmpl
 app-mvhub/conf/templates/html/category_results.tmpl
 app-mvhub/conf/templates/html/program_results.tmpl

      maybe also forms to add / modify / categorize programs

Notes:

Usability tests showed people confused by search results for "Free
immigration lawyer"
There were many irrelevant links in the beginning best results appeared
after 10 links or so.

Possible solutions:

 limit the number of categories a program contact can place their
program in.
 or force them to pick their top 3 categories.
 kevin mullen also had this thought
 a good example of a program with too many irrelevant categories :
(shriver job corps)

 Allow / create different ways to classify programs
  "free" is different than "homeless advocacy"

 Have a human editor over-ride program self categorizations

we know we are done:

  people succeed when we conduct the usability tests.
  for example when we search for "free immigration lawyer" the free
services should appear in the first few links.
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Swetha (cswetha25)
tags: added: usability
removed: usabilty
tags: added: gsoc
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