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We haven't done any usability testing on searching for packages, as opposed to applications. That would be pretty far down our priority list, unfortunately.
If there was actually a package named "numpy", it would show up as #1 in the search results without having to click "Show technical items". See for example the results for "licq", which returns the base licq package (because it's an exact name match) above the KDE4 and Qt4 Licq applications.
But there isn't a package named "numpy". The base packages seem to be called python-numpy and python3-numpy. If one of those was renamed to numpy, the problem would be solved. (It's the same with SciPy: python-scipy and python3-scipy.)
With their current names, though, I don't know on what algorithmic grounds we could possibly make either of those two packages show up in default search results for "numpy" without sowing confusion in most other searches.
As for making the link easier to see, I do think it should be black rather than orange. That might help, but beyond that I'd rather get more data before changing its appearance much.