Description
What is the URL of the page with the issue?
https://pkg.go.dev/search?q=path&m=
What is your user agent?
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/119.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
What did you do?
Searched the exact full name of a package of the standard library : "path"
What did you expect to see?
https://pkg.go.dev/path should be the first result
What did you see instead?
there are many results, but https://pkg.go.dev/path is not in the list at all
General problem
This is similar to #41369 but more specific: when exact search terms fail to show the relevant standard library package as 1st result.
The following rule should always hold:
IF a package exists in the standard library with name FOO, AND a user is searching the exact term "FOO" in pkg.go.dev, THEN the standard library package FOO must be the 1st result in the list
I tried 284 such searches, here are my findings.
- When the full package name contains a "/" e.g. "compress/bzip", and the user is searching for the exact full name "compress/bzip", then no result list is displayed. Instead, the page is redirected to the correct stdlib package. This works 100% of the time
- When the full package name is a single word e.g. "time", and the user is searching for the exact word, then a result list is displayed. The correct stdlib package is most often the 1st result, with 5 annoying exceptions
- When the full package name contains a "/" e.g. "compress/bzip", and the user is searching for the exact last word e.g. "bzip", then a result list is displayed. The correct stdlib package is often the 1st result, with 16 annoying exceptions
The results of these 5 single-word searches are buggy:
| Package | Search link | Result |
|---|---|---|
| path | search path | NOT FOUND |
| cmp | search cmp | 2nd pos |
| maps | search maps | 8th pos |
| plugin | search plugin | 2nd pos |
| slices | search slices | 4th pos |
The results of these 16 single-word searches are buggy too, according to the rule:
| Package | Search link | Result |
|---|---|---|
| runtime/coverage | search coverage | NOT FOUND |
| go/build/constraint | search constraint | 3rd pos |
| go/constant | search constant | 3rd pos |
| go/doc/comment | search comment | 6th pos |
| go/format | search format | 2nd pos |
| go/importer | search importer | 2nd pos |
| go/types | search types | 4th pos |
| image/color | search color | 2nd pos |
| net/rpc | search rpc | 3rd pos |
| regexp/syntax | search syntax | 4th pos |
| runtime/cgo | search cgo | 2nd pos |
| runtime/metrics | search metrics | 21st pos |
| runtime/race | search race | 5th pos |
| runtime/trace | search trace | 5th pos |
| testing/slogtest | search slogtest | 2nd pos |
| text/template/parse | search parse | 11th pos |