Creating Best Bets
Best bets
associate specific search phrases (specified by the portal administrator)
with a set of search results. When end users enter a search query
that matches a best bet search phrase, the best bet results appear
as the first results in the relevance-ranked result list. Additionally,
users can choose to go directly to the highest ranking best bet, the
top best bet, instead of seeing the normal search results. For example,
the top best bet for the term "HR" might be the Human Resources community.
If users use the top best bet feature, they go directly to the Human
Resources community instead of seeing all search results for the term
"HR."
To access
the Search Results Manager you must have the following rights:
- Access Administration activity right
- Access Utilities activity right
- Access Search Results Manager activity right
Note:
- Best bets are case-insensitive.
- You can create hundreds of best bets, each mapping to a maximum
of 20 results.
- Since best bets are handled by the Search Service and are not
managed portal objects, best bets do not migrate from development
to production environments; you must re-create them in the production
environment.
- Click Administration.
- From the Select Utility drop-down
list, select Search Results Manager.
- Launch the Best Bet Editor by clicking New Best
Bet.
- Complete the best bet settings as described in the online
help.
Users who search for the phrase you specified now see the
best bets you created. Users can go directly to the top best bet by
using the top best bet operator (>) in their search or by clicking
rather than
Search.
