Searches gone bad

[garazdawi]

This issue is a collection of searches that do not yield the results expected:

• https://www.erlang.org/doc/search?q=file
• Search page with no terms lists modules in reverse alphabetical order #69

[lhoguin]

"Documentation type" is broken in erlang.org search for example https://www.erlang.org/doc/search?q=ssl

Also it's hard to find the ssl module to begin with. Modules or applications matching exactly should probably show up first. Maybe even doc file names (erl_ext_dist comes to mind).

[garazdawi]

"Documentation type" is broken in erlang.org search for example https://www.erlang.org/doc/search?q=ssl

Should be fixed now. The HTML layout changed a bit when I merged erlang/otp#5292 and I had forgotten to update the crawler.

Thanks for reporting!

Also it's hard to find the ssl module to begin with. Modules or applications matching exactly should probably show up first.

Should be better now that the "Documentation Type" is fixed. I don't know how do make the index promote exact matches over partial matches, but I feel there should be a way...

Maybe even doc file names (erl_ext_dist comes to mind).

Adding the last component of the URI as a searchable term is a good idea.