Search results for "slack" have Slack 7th and slack alternatives higher up the list
Bug #1886960 reported by
Stuart Langridge
This bug affects 3 people
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| snap-store-desktop |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
When searching in Ubuntu Software in Ubuntu 20.04 for "slack", the actual Slack application is 7th in the list of results; Mattermost (a Slack rival) is first, and other rivals and less relevant applications also appear above Slack itself (for example "zerotier-one", a "software-based managed Ethernet switch for planet Earth" which has no icon and seems entirely irrelevant to the query). Perhaps results are ordered entirely by rating, but it seems to me that perhaps the actual name that I'm searching for ought to be given more consideration. Screenshot attached.
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| Stuart Langridge (sil) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in snap-store-desktop: | |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
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| Dylan Socolobsky (dsocolobsky) wrote | #2 |
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I was about to open a new bug, this does not only affect Slack; it affects searching for "Discord", "Vim", "mutt", "Go", "Golang", etc. to name a few, the most relevant result which often matches exactly the query string does not show at the top and often the top results are irrelevant.
This is happening in Ubuntu 20.10 as well.
If someone can point me into the right direction I might start taking a look at the issue, I'm not a Gnome/Ubuntu developer but I'm open to start contributing somewhere, I just can't commit my time completely, I'm honestly not sure if this is an approachable issue or not.