https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=399502

--- Comment #3 from Nate Graham <n...@kde.org> ---
I don't like "Relevance" as a search criterion *anywhere* because it's
meaningless. What does it mean for the system to think a result is more or less
relevant? I have no way of knowing how its definition of relevance differs from
my own.

"Relevance" can work when the algorithm is *perfect*, but this requires years
of telemetry to scrutinize how every search winds up for the user so that the
relevance algorithm can be adjusted incrementally to reduce the amount of time
it takes to acquire a result. Google literally spends billions of dollars on
this. We don't have those resources, and even if we did we don't spy on our
users so we will never be able to achieve the same results.

Rating is IMHO a much better default sort order for search results.

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