Understanding and Configuring Relevance Settings
Generally speaking, relevance relates to how closely the search results returned to the user match what the user wanted to find. Ideally, the results on the first page are the most relevant, so users do not have to look through several pages of results to find the best result for their search.
The product team for SharePoint Server 2007 has added a number of new features that substantially improve relevance in the result set. The following sections detail each of these improvements.
Click Distance
Click distance refers to how far each content item in the result set is from an "authoritative" site. In this context, "sites" can be either Web sites or file shares. By default, all the root sites in each ...
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