ubuntu-website-content

Search for Linux mostly turns up USNs

Bug #859678 reported by Alan Pope 🍺🐧🐱 🦄 on 2011-09-26

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	ubuntu-website-content	Fix Released	Wishlist	Anthony Dillon

Bug Description

Visit http://ubuntu.com/
Type Linux in the search box and press 'Enter'.
Note that the first three pages are Ubuntu Security Notices (USNs) relating to Linux Kernel Vulnerabilities.

Not a great bit of marketing.

Searching for Linux on the Ubuntu home page should at the very least yield a result (however far buried/hidden from normal navigation) which explains what Linux is and how it relates to Ubuntu.

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Alan Pope 🍺🐧🐱 🦄 (popey) wrote on 2011-09-26:

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Matthew Nuzum (newz) wrote on 2011-09-26:

Two solutions to this:

1. Improve the SEO for the keyword "Linux." - this would have farther reaching benefits than just our own built in search engine.

2. Add negative weighting to the /usn area so that it is less likely to show first in search results.

I'm going to change this bug to assign it to the proper project.

affects:

ubuntu-website → ubuntu-website-content

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Inayaili de León (yaili) wrote on 2011-10-21:

I see a few other pages before the USNs now. Maybe John can have a look at this bug, add it to the search project? I'm assigning it to John and marking it as wishlist/nice to have. The search definitely needs improvements.

Changed in ubuntu-website-content:
assignee:	nobody → John Oxton (johnoxton)
status:	New → Triaged
importance:	Undecided → Wishlist

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Anthony Dillon (ya-bo-ng) wrote on 2011-10-26:

The domain '/usn/*' was lowered to the lowest priority in the search filtering settings. Thats why it has reduced from the results. This isn't ideal for a full solution but works in this instance.

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Anthony Dillon (ya-bo-ng) wrote on 2011-11-11:

The search has been improved greatly in this area.