About relevance ranking

You use relevance ranking to control the order in which record search results are displayed to the end-user.

You use relevance ranking to control the order in which record search results are displayed to the end-user. Typically, relevance ranking is used to ensure that the most important search results are displayed earliest to the user, since users are generally unlikely to page or scan through large result sets.

The importance of a particular record search result is generally an application-specific concept. Thus, the relevance ranking feature provides a flexible, configurable set of ranking modules. These modules are then grouped into strategies that can be used in combination to produce a wide range of relevance ranking effects. Each search interface has its own ranking strategy.

Relevance ranking contains a rich set of features that should be used advisedly. Misuse of relevance ranking strategies can cause unexpected results and degraded performance.