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Searching "bluetooth" doesn't show helpful results
The first three results are all not what users want. A popular package mostly used for bluetooth called flutter_blue_plus only shows up on the third page.
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The SDK result should be down-ranked, that's for sure. I'm unsure about the exact-match package name, I think it is useful to keep exact name matching a priority. After that is a mixed bag: what would you expect to rank better for such a generic term?
I think the current algorithm puts too much weight on having the keyword in the actual name hurting the visibility of libraries that opt for a different name.
https://pub.dev/packages/flutter_blue_plus has 881 likes, 99% popularity and is recently updated. I guess (and you can verify this) that if its name was flutter_bluetooth_plus instead, it would have been much higher on the list, at least on the first page.
+1 to this.
I agree that the title of the package should have a high priority. However, that’s not how people are usually searching for the packages they need to use. In those cases, usually keywords play a bigger role there. Most of the keywords are found in the package description, topics and README.md - not sure if these are even included.
Also, if we talk specifically about the search by package name, I don’t even think that fuzzy matching is implemented. E.g. if you try to search for the package “flutter_deck” by typing “deck” - all good, that’s the third result. However, if there is a typo, like “dekc” - that’s it, the result does not appear in any of the pages.
I must say that Google results (at least for me) show quite good representation of top packages
You can see that bluetooth keyword is highlighted in packages descriptions.
Maybe we can visually highlight when a package is included because of a direct match, but not otherwise regarded useful.
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