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How Phrases and Proximity Factor in Relevance

In basic search, Bag of Words mode employs special relevancy ranking features which emphasize phrase and proximity matches with the search phrase, even though the user did not employ quotes or proximity operators.

The search phrase terms are used to generate three queries:
  1. All words joined together as a single phrase
  2. Stem variants of all words and all quoted phrases <ORDER><NEAR> each other
  3. Stem variants of all words and all quoted phrases joined together with AND

The three queries combined with the OR operator into a single query, and the relevance ranking are designed to ensure that the results from group 1 always rank above group 2, which rank above group 3.

For example, if you enter "san francisco" hotels, the following queries would be generated:
  • “san francisco hotels”
  • “san francisco” <ORDER><NEAR> hotels
  • “san francisco” AND hotels

The search results pages for banner and advanced search allow you to sort the search results by last-modified date, folder, or object type.

Parent topic: How Search Results Are Ranked

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