About Best Bets and Top 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."
Note:
- Best bets are not case-sensitive.
- Best bets apply only to the portal banner search box and search
portlet. Best bets are not used by other portal search interfaces,
such as advanced search or object selection search.
- Users go to the top best bet (for example, a community) only if
they have at least Read access to it. If they do not, they see the
list of search results to which they do have access.
- The phrase “Best Bet” appears next to each best bet result to
inform the user that the result has been judged especially relevant
to the query.
- Creating Best BetsBest 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."
