How does Verity score the search result?

[redapple]

Hello,

We have a verity search engine on our website. The problem is that the files we are searching for are not listed at the top, but some other old files(maybe?)

Anyway, my questions are: what critiria does Verity use to score the search result? How can I make the most up-to-date pages display on the top of the list?

thank you!!

 

[chandler]

If you add new documents, I think you need to update the collection and re-index. you can have a scheduled task that re-indexes or you can even have the page re-index. Chandler
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[redapple]

Thank you for your reply Chandler.

Maybe I didn't make the question clear. Our problem is that the files we want to be listed at the top is listed at the bottom of the search result. While some unrelated pages are listed at the top.

We'd like to find out what criteria did Verity use to score the search result, and how we can bring one page to the top of the list.

thanks for your kind reply.

 

[calista]

I've been looking into this, myself, since I am trying to implement a full text search on my intranet site. As far as I have been able to determine, the actual criteria is proprietary information, but the general consensus seem to be that the number of times the search term appears in a document is a big part of it. My only suggestion for you, redapple, is if it is would be adequate for your purposes to index the results of a query, and run you search against that, it would be a fairly simple matter, just include the date as part of the query. For example, my current search function searches the indexed results of a query for the title and description of a list of documents. Therefore, the users can currently search title and description, but not the full text. Not great, but better than nothing. Calista :-X
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[chandler]

Ok, I think I know what you mean now. You updated some documents and the verity score didn't account for the change? You would still need to re-index because the verity search will be based off of the index file... which won't include any new changes to existing documents or any new documents unless the index file is updated to include those changes.

If you want the most recent updated pages at the top of the list, you need to have your output page ordered by date instead of verity score. Or am I still not getting what you're asking? Chandler
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