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'''Help improve our search results!'''

[[SoftwareCenter|Ubuntu Software Center]] uses [[http://xapian.org/|Xapian]] to power its speedy and powerful search. But making full-text search work well is still a black art.  You can help ensure we’re improving, by compiling here a table of searches, and comparing how well they work in the different versions of Ubuntu Software Center.

||Search string   ||Desired first result string||1.0.2||r476||r477-xapian||r479||r479-xapian||2.0.1||2.1.10       ||Known bugs||
||bzr-gtk         ||Bazaar Explorer            ||     ||    ||           ||    ||           ||1    ||2            ||||
||dive into python||diveintopython             ||None ||1   ||None       ||2   ||2          ||2    ||2            ||||
||firebug         ||Firebug extension for FF   ||1    ||1   ||1          ||1   ||1          ||1    ||1            ||||
||flash           ||Adobe Flash Plugin 10      ||26   ||28  ||2          ||28  ||4          ||     ||4            ||||
||genealogy       ||Gramps Genealogy System    ||1    ||1   ||1          ||1   ||1          ||     ||1            ||||
||gnome-session   ||gnome-session              ||     ||    ||           ||    ||           ||     ||1 (technical)||||
||linux-image     ||linux-image                ||None ||4   ||1          ||1,5 ||1,2        ||     ||1 (technical)||||
||mythtv          ||MythTV Frontend            ||4    ||4   ||4          ||4   ||3          ||     ||4            ||||
||openoffice      ||OpenOffice.org Office Suite||12   ||12  ||absent     ||12  ||2          ||     ||11           ||||
||pinball         ||Emilia Pinball             ||2    ||1   ||1          ||4   ||1          ||     ||1            ||||
||real-time kernel||linux-image-rt             ||None ||None||None       ||None||None       ||     ||7 (technical)||||
||realtime kernel ||linux-image-rt             ||None ||None||None       ||None||None       ||     ||7 (technical)||||
||shoes           ||Shoes                      ||     ||    ||           ||    ||           ||2    ||2            ||[[https://launchpad.net/bugs/551974|Bug 551974]]||
||the             ||Full-screen character...   ||None ||None||1          ||1   ||1          ||     ||1 (technical)||||
||thunderbird     ||Mozilla Thunderbird        ||1    ||1   ||4          ||1   ||4          ||     ||1            ||||

If the most appropriate result doesn't show up at all, it might be the fault of the Ubuntu Software Center, or it might be the fault of the package description. If it’s the latter, report a bug on the package and add [[https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bugs?field.tag=metadata|the “metadata” tag]].