What is the ranking model in SharePoint 2013?
SharePoint 2013 Search allows you to peek into the result of its ranking model by retrieving the rankdetail Managed Property. This property contains all the different pieces that add up to the total ranking of the specific search result.
How are search results ranked in SharePoint Server?
In the classic search experience, for the default search verticals Everything, Videos, Conversations and People, the search system uses the most appropriate ranking model automatically. If you create your own search vertical, you can configure which ranking model to use for that vertical.
How does SharePoint search work in SharePoint 2013?
SharePoint 2013 Search uses complex language processing rules, analytics and ranking models to find the most relevant content. Luckily it offers us some aids to help us understand the ranking of particular piece of content. SharePoint 2013 Search allows you to peek into the result of its ranking model by retrieving the rankdetail Managed Property.
Where is the rank detail stored in a ranking model?
The rank detail is stored in a special managed property, called rankdetail. Each rank feature in a ranking model has a separate XML node in the rank detail that describes details of the rank score calculation. The rank detail is provided only for queries that have search results that don’t exceed 100 items.
Is there an app to tune a ranking model?
With the Ranking Model Tuning App, you can do this more easily than before. The app provides a user interface for copying an existing ranking model, judge the results for a set of queries, add or remove rank features, and adjust the weight of these features.
How to create a custom search ranking model?
If the standard ranking models don’t satisfy the relevance requirements you have, you can create a custom ranking model for the classic search experience. With the Ranking Model Tuning App, you can do this more easily than before.