Posted Mar 29, 2001 by Peter Hilton
Didn't the search results used to be sorted by article status, with 'Edited' first?
I miss that; if I'm searching on a subject I'd rather read 'Edited' articles first.
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Posted Mar 29, 2001 by h2g2 Support
It's on the percentage match. According to the Ripley 1,2 release notes at http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/A458435 it works like this:
The default search now searches the whole Guide, and the results are returned in a much more logical order than before. Each match is given a percentage score, and the results are ordered by that score, rather than just by entry number (as was previously the case).
For the technically-minded, the mechanism now scores points independently for the subject line and the body text and then combines these scores with a bias towards the score from the subject line. This combined score is further modified by a multiplier depending on the entry's status, so a non-Edited Entry will have to be a much better match than an Edited one to score higher than it. The highest points are gained for an exact match of the search string entered (once 'noise words' are removed). Points are also scored separately for each word or phrase (phrases being words inside double quotes) and inflectional forms of these, with extra points for proximity of the individual phrases.
Hope this helps.
Mark
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Posted Apr 2, 2001 by Jim Lynn. Ten Glorious Years...
You can always choose to search only in the edited guide...
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