Search results not very accurate

[alekoskParticipant]

Hi, it seems like the search results are not really accurate.. I am using the Index Table Engine with the following weight:

Title weight: 100
Content weight: 20
Excerpt weight: 10
Terms weight: 70
Custom fields weight: 70
Author weight: 8

An example: when I am searching “connection to liquidity” there is a post with the title: “Connection from XCore to Liquidity Provider” which doesn’t show up in the list see screenshot! ( link to article: https://help.primexm.com/technology-services/xcore-module/connection-from-xcore-to-liquidity-provider/ )

Also when searching for “xcore connection” and “connection xcore” (reverse the keywords) the results are different..

Attaching a screenshot and sending you the login details with a secret post..

Can you please check why this is so inaccurate?

Also one of the reasons I am using the Index Table is to be able to search using the post tags.. however this doesn’t seem to work either.. when searching for a specific tag I added in a post, i don’t see the post in the search results..

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[Ernest MarcinkoKeymaster]

Hi!

Thank you very much for the proper details, it helped me a lot!

The problem was actually how the weight options were set. Since the title weight was 100, and the content was 20, there was a far bigger chance for the matches in the content to outweight the matches in the titles – since you have fairly long contents, and some important keywords repeat over 5-10 times.

I have changed them as following (about 10 times smaller for each, except the title), I feel like this is very close to what you need:

Title weight: 200
Content weight: 2
Excerpt weight: 1
Terms weight: 7
Custom fields weight: 7
Author weight: 1

The reason is, that the index table calculates the word occurrences as well. Since there are a lot of possible matches in the content, having a far higher title match chance is going to help to maintain dominant title matches at all times. You can of course experiment with these, but I highly recommend having the title weight at least 50 times higher as the content weight in your case.

In case of the reverse term match, the first keyword is always calculated with a bit higher relevance. The configuration above will reduce it’s effect, as it will mostly affect the title matches only.

I have also changed the keyword logic as this: https://i.imgur.com/o5UiUrY.png
I highly recommend leaving the primary logic as ‘AND with exact word matches’, the secondary can be an OR type of logic, if you like.

You should get much more relevant results now, at least closer to your excpectations.

Best,
Ernest Marcinko
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[alekoskParticipant]

Wow, thanks Ernest!
Best support ever!

It really works now , thanks for looking into it!

Alekos

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