microsoft
Regulate tag usage
Description of the new feature / enhancement
I was wondering if I can install ffmpeg through winget, so I searched for ffmpeg and got this and this:
> winget search ffmpeg
Name Id Version Match Source
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Wav2Bar Picorims.wav2bar 0.3.0 Tag: ffmpeg winget
y2mp3 moshfeu.y2mp3 2.5.6 Tag: ffmpeg winget
The two packages that came up are not ffmpeg or alternative ffmpeg frontends. They might utilize it at some point, but that doesn't mean they should come up when the user searches for ffmpeg. If you look through the tag lists, there's:
- audio
- download
- electron
- ffmpeg
- music
- webpack
- youtube
- video
That almost feels like a form of advertisement? "Add as many tags as possible to come up in as many searches as possible."
Proposed technical implementation details
Limit tag usage to 1, maybe 2. Regulate tag usage.
Far as I can tell, tags were introduced to aid the issue of some packages having very specific names, meaning a user might not find it upon searching. E.g. Foobar2000 could benefit from being searchable with a "foobar" tag, Geforce Now with "geforce," Docker Desktop with "docker." How would "wav2bar" be useful popping up for "ffmpeg" or "flatpack" or "electron" or "audio"?
For such situations as these, if the searcher were to support searching dependencies of packages, this would remediate any desire to utilize such tags maliciously to improve WinGet SEO of those packages. However I estimate that this would be too much for the servers to manage, even if this feature were to be utilized infrequently, as I expect that it would.
