Attempt to order rank or order results by relevance

Bug #539670 reported by Dan MacNeil
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This bug affects 1 person
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
MVHub
In Progress
Low
csmith

Bug Description

Right now search results are returned in alphabetical order

possible better results might gotten by

 number of categories record is in (fewer is better)
 days past 6 months since last update
 category name in text of program name
 search term in

each critera might be given weighted score, the scores might be added
and results might be sorted in dessending order by total score.

Looking at academic search engine literature might be useful here

Dan MacNeil (omacneil)
tags: added: time-40+hrs
removed: 40-plus-hours
description: updated
csmith (csmith-thecsl)
Changed in mvhub:
assignee: nobody → csmith (csmith-thecsl)
status: Confirmed → In Progress
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