Chapter 8. Controlling Relevancy
Getting a search engine to behave can be very hard. It does not matter if you are a newbie or have years of experience with Elasticsearch or Solr, you must have definitely struggled with low-quality search results in your application. The default algorithm of Lucene does not come close to meeting your requirements, and there is always a struggle to deliver the relevant search results.
In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:
- Introducing relevant searches
- Out-of-the-box tools from Elasticsearch
- Controlling relevancy with custom scoring
Introducing relevant searches
Relevancy is the root of a search engine's value proposition and can be defined as the art of ranking content for a user's search based on how ...
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