The zero-results logs have lots of prefix searches -- are these from typeahead searches run automatically from the search input box, or did folks search for these literal phrase fragments?

In T103596#1394761, @Jdouglas wrote:

The zero-results logs have lots of prefix searches -- are these from typeahead searches run automatically from the search input box, or did folks search for these literal phrase fragments?

Prefix search is almost entirely typeahead. They come from firefox plugins and the site directly.

Did @Ironholds say something about analyzing these separately from the rest, and that both still came up with a 25% no-results rate?

Yeah, but it was a very ad-hoc job; we need to set up more structured and robust reporting before I'd rely on that number.

This would ordinarily be an Analysis task, but since Oliver's out, an engineer can do this one because we need it really soon!

I don't think anyone except oliver currently has access to this data in a reasonable format

I'd like to have access to this data and start to evaluate performances of the cybozu language detector on it (T104505).

Has the data been collected? (asked the newbie who didn't know.)

It would be really wonderful to have (appropriately anonymized, reasonably formatted) data sitting in a pile somewhere that everyone has access to. David and I were talking today, and it'd be great to do a quick-n-dirty name-detection pass over the query strings to see how many are likely names, for example, to gauge what kind of impact improved name indexing and searching might have on zero results.

It hasn't, no - or, we have a way of collecting it but we're not consistently using it. If that's a desired thing, poke Dan; people have been asking for this a lot but it's not highly prioritised

I think this is a duplicate of T107035, which is where this analysis is actually taking place.

@Deskana, I created T107035 as a subtask of this one, since my analysis isn't necessarily the only analysis. I'm focusing mostly on the wikipedia queries as a place to get started, and I wasn't sure what additional analysis this task would cover.

In T103596#1489544, @TJones wrote:

@Deskana, I created T107035 as a subtask of this one, since my analysis isn't necessarily the only analysis. I'm focusing mostly on the wikipedia queries as a place to get started, and I wasn't sure what additional analysis this task would cover.

Not a problem. You're doing exactly the right thing. I think we can just merge this task into your task.