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Add support for relevance-ranking Ferret engine results
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Authored by epriestley on Sep 5 2017, 11:00 PM.
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Ref T12819. "Relevance" here just means "how many of your search terms are present in the title?" but that's about the best we can do anyway.

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Indexed tasks "A B", "A Z", "Z B", and "Z Z" (all with "A B" in comments). Searched for "A B". Got results ranked in the listed order, with "A B" as the most relevant hit for query "A B".

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The only other relevance signals I can think of are:

  • If you're an author, owner or subscriber -- doesn't seem like a very strong signal though?
  • Creation or modification date. We currently fall back to creation date when two results have the same "relevance" since we need to order by something, but this doesn't seem like a strong signal to me.
  • We could do "TF/IDF" on this, so that when you search for "the platypus", results which match only "platypus" in the title get more points than results which match only "the". But this is complicated to build and not clearly useful, and I don't think anyone searches for "the platypus" or "android of in the a".
  • I think we can't really do Google-style pagerank because objects aren't very connected and the connections aren't terribly meaningful, and there's no sort of reputation system here.

And then I guess "number of times the object mentions the term" but this is hard to compute in SQL and I think probably not useful anyway.

platypus platypus platypus platypus platypus platypus platypus platypus platypus platypus platypus platypus platypus platypus

This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Sep 5 2017, 11:33 PM
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