x/pkgsite: ansipixels disappeared from search results

[ldemailly]

What is the URL of the page with the issue?

https://pkg.go.dev/search?q=ansipixels

What is your user agent?

mac chrome but irrelevant afaik

Screenshot

What did you do?

searched for my package by its most common name

What did you expect to see?

my package listed

What did you see instead?

0 and 0 in symbols as well

all this despite

https://pkg.go.dev/fortio.org/terminal/ansipixels#AnsiPixels

having been there since sept 2024 (it used to work, just broke)

while I am it, somehow my packages (fortio.org/*) seems to not show up in search unless I add "fortio" in a prefix, eg "fortio sets" - is there something against vanity URLs ? something I should do on the website for fortio.org or other (I use meta-names to send to the right github location)

[adonovan]

I just tried it and got the page you see below. Could you try your query again and report whether it is still failing?

[ldemailly]

Thanks! it re-appeared, was there an outage of sort in index/search server? (but other searches worked)

btw the page in your sshot is the link that always worked, it's the search that was empty and now indeed works:

any thoughts about that:

somehow my packages (fortio.org/*) seems to not show up in search unless I add "fortio" in a prefix, eg "fortio sets" - is there something against vanity URLs ? something I should do on the website for fortio.org or other (I use meta-names to send to the right github location)

https://pkg.go.dev/search?q=set&m=package or https://pkg.go.dev/search?q=sets&m=package for instance don't show even on "more results" and shows a ton of packages completely unrelated to sets but with high import count... maybe the search should try to match the package name or description before the number of imports?

feel free to close though if there is no tip - thanks

[prattmic]

cc @golang/pkgsite

[jba]

We look at the import path, the description, and the number of importers.
What specific packages would you expect to show up for the query "sets"?

[ldemailly]

I expect to see https://pkg.go.dev/fortio.org/sets somewhere
probably before "assert" and "errors" and "zap" etc... but at least somewhere in the first or last page

I guess it must be a bug for short words matching substrings somewhere or some such

[jba]

I think it's because your package has very few importers, compared to the packages that are listed.
Also, the word "set" is very general, so phrases like "a shared set of errors" or "a set of comprehensive testing tools" match.
Those matches plus the large number of importers dominate over the occurrence of the word "set" in the package path.

[ldemailly]

Yes, that's why I was saying

maybe the search should try to match the package name [or description] before the number of imports?

it's difficult for new packages to get discovered (and thus raise their import count) when they don't show up at all so probably a balance should be struck