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lekt8 975fd42e32 fix: rank recency by UTC, not local time (#1116) (#1234)
src/search/ranking.py computed result age as `(datetime.now() - dt).days`, where
`dt` is parsed from a UTC-style published date with no timezone. Using local
`datetime.now()` skewed the age by the host's UTC offset (off-by-up-to-a-day near
boundaries), and was a latent crash: once neighbouring code becomes timezone-aware
the naive/aware subtraction raises TypeError (the landmine called out in #1116).

Recency is now measured against naive UTC. The scoring is also lifted out of the
rank_search_results closure into a module-level, time-injectable `recency_score`
so it's unit-testable, and `_utcnow_naive()` avoids `datetime.utcnow()` (removed in
Python 3.14).

Covered by tests/test_search_ranking_recency.py (5 cases); the existing
tests/test_search_ranking.py still passes.

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-03 00:18:15 +09:00

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"""Search result ranking based on relevance, source quality, and recency."""
import re
import logging
from datetime import datetime, timezone
from typing import List, Optional
from urllib.parse import urlparse
logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
_AGE_FORMATS = ("%Y-%m-%d", "%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S", "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S")
def _utcnow_naive() -> datetime:
"""Naive UTC 'now'. Matches the naive, UTC-style published dates parsed below,
and is safe on Python 3.14 where ``datetime.utcnow()`` is removed (#1116)."""
return datetime.now(timezone.utc).replace(tzinfo=None)
def recency_score(age_str: Optional[str], now: Optional[datetime] = None) -> float:
"""Score how recent a result is: 1.0 for <=7 days old, 0.0 for >=30 days.
The age is measured against UTC, not local time. The previous code used
``datetime.now()`` (local) against UTC-style published dates, so the age was
skewed by the host's UTC offset; it was also a latent crash once neighbouring
code moves to timezone-aware datetimes (#1116). ``now`` is injectable for tests.
"""
if not age_str:
return 0.0
dt = None
for fmt in _AGE_FORMATS:
try:
dt = datetime.strptime(age_str, fmt)
break
except Exception:
dt = None
if not dt:
return 0.0
now = now or _utcnow_naive()
days_old = (now - dt).days
if days_old <= 7:
return 1.0
if days_old >= 30:
return 0.0
return (30 - days_old) / 23
_NEWS_HINTS = {"news", "nyheter", "headlines", "breaking", "latest", "today", "idag"}
_SPORTS_HINTS = {
"sport", "sports", "soccer", "football", "hockey", "nba", "nfl", "mlb",
"fifa", "world cup", "championship", "quarterfinal", "eliminates",
}
_LOW_VALUE_NEWS_DOMAINS = {
"facebook.com", "www.facebook.com", "sports.yahoo.com", "yahoo.com",
"www.yahoo.com", "msn.com", "www.msn.com",
}
_TRUSTED_NEWS_DOMAINS = {
"apnews.com", "www.apnews.com", "reuters.com", "www.reuters.com",
"bbc.com", "www.bbc.com", "cbc.ca", "www.cbc.ca",
"ctvnews.ca", "www.ctvnews.ca", "globalnews.ca", "www.globalnews.ca",
"theguardian.com",
"www.theguardian.com", "euronews.com", "www.euronews.com",
"dw.com", "www.dw.com", "government.se", "www.government.se",
}
def _domain(url: str) -> str:
try:
return urlparse(url).netloc.lower()
except Exception:
return ""
def rank_search_results(query: str, results: List[dict]) -> List[dict]:
"""Rank search results by title relevance, snippet quality, domain authority, and recency."""
query_terms = [t.lower() for t in re.findall(r"\b\w+\b", query)]
query_lc = query.lower()
is_news_query = any(term in _NEWS_HINTS for term in query_terms)
is_sports_query = any(hint in query_lc for hint in _SPORTS_HINTS)
def title_score(title: str) -> float:
if not title:
return 0.0
title_lc = title.lower()
matches = sum(1 for term in query_terms if re.search(rf"\b{re.escape(term)}\b", title_lc))
return matches / len(query_terms) if query_terms else 0.0
def snippet_score(snippet: str) -> float:
if not snippet:
return 0.0
length_factor = min(len(snippet), 200) / 200
term_hits = sum(1 for term in query_terms if term in snippet.lower())
term_factor = term_hits / len(query_terms) if query_terms else 0.0
return (length_factor + term_factor) / 2
def domain_score(url: str) -> float:
netloc = _domain(url)
if not netloc:
return 0.0
if netloc in _TRUSTED_NEWS_DOMAINS:
return 1.0
if netloc.endswith(".edu") or netloc.endswith(".gov"):
return 1.0
if netloc.endswith(".org"):
return 0.7
return 0.4
def news_quality_adjustment(title: str, snippet: str, url: str) -> float:
if not is_news_query:
return 0.0
text = f"{title} {snippet}".lower()
netloc = _domain(url)
adjustment = 0.0
if netloc in _TRUSTED_NEWS_DOMAINS:
adjustment += 1.2
if any(term in text for term in ("latest news", "breaking news", "daily coverage", "news from")):
adjustment += 0.4
if netloc in _LOW_VALUE_NEWS_DOMAINS:
adjustment -= 0.8
if not is_sports_query and any(hint in text or hint in netloc for hint in _SPORTS_HINTS):
adjustment -= 1.5
# A country/news query should not rank a page whose title/snippet barely
# mentions the country above actual news pages for that country.
subject_terms = [t for t in query_terms if t not in _NEWS_HINTS]
if subject_terms and not any(t in text or t in netloc for t in subject_terms):
adjustment -= 1.0
return adjustment
ranked = []
for result in results:
title = result.get("title", "")
snippet = result.get("snippet", "")
url = result.get("url", "")
age = result.get("age", None)
score = (
2.0 * title_score(title)
+ 1.0 * snippet_score(snippet)
+ 1.5 * domain_score(url)
+ 1.0 * recency_score(age)
+ news_quality_adjustment(title, snippet, url)
)
ranked.append((score, result))
ranked.sort(key=lambda x: x[0], reverse=True)
return [r for _, r in ranked]