Sitecore Cookbook for Developers

Influencing search results with boosting

In information retrieval, a document's relevance to a search is measured by how similar it is to the query. Sometimes, we need to boost or prioritize some search to get them elevated to show their importance by increasing their score based on their popularity, ratings, or page rank. Sitecore or Lucene provide different types of boosting mechanisms, in both static and dynamic ways.

In this recipe, we will cover both static and dynamic boosting using item-level, field-level, rules-based, and query-time boosting. For example, we need to implement the search functionality for a mobile phone selling website, where we need to show the results of product details and related blogs. Here, in search results, we need ...