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How does WebLink determine relevance on a text search?

WebLink Laserfiche Search and Retrieval

Updated April 18, 2014

asked on April 16, 2014

I am trying to figure out the formula/method used by WebLink to determine relevance when running a text search. Does anyone know the methods used to determine a documents relevance when searching on text? (e.g. Date Created, Hits, Last Modified, Most Accessed, Last Accessed, ...)

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replied on April 18, 2014

For full text search, hits number has influence on relevance, while Data Created, Last Modified, Most Accessed and Last Accessed has nothing to do with it. However, hits number is not the only factor that determines relevance. Words number in document, for instance, also contributes to it.

BTW, you could sort search results by Date Created or any other column you want, not just the relevance.

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replied on April 18, 2014

Thanks for clarifying. Our customer wanted to know more specifics on what exactly constituted Relevance and this should suffice.

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replied on April 16, 2014

This isn't really a WebLink question, as WebLink just reports the values that it gets from the Laserfiche server, which in turn gets them from the Full Text Search Engine. I don't know how FTS calculates it.

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