If you find that searches return results, but the results are unexpected, consider the following checklist of potential problems:
The items may have been found, but are ranked low in the results.
Examine the response XML file for relevancy (
score=N).Check your Search (rank) configurations.
Items may be filtered out by
mergeSettings. ThemergeSettingsattribute on the query can be used with multi-partition indexes to retrieve a different number of results than the per-partition requests. For example, if you have three partitions and are fetching 100 from each but want 200 total results, you need to set theresponseNumberSettingsfor 100 and themergeSettingsfor 200. Otherwise themergeSettingswill default to be the same as theresponseNumberSettings, giving only 100.
