Search result ranking improvements #11741

mhilbrunner · 2024-11-04T00:55:15Z

What's the problem this feature will solve?

Currently, the search results are ranked suboptimally in some ways.

Exact matches, all terms being in the exact order (as opposed to matching only parts, or in different term order) seem to not be valued enough.
Titles and document file names seem to count too little. These are the results for searching "audio" in Godot's documentation, note how "Documentation changelog" is ranked above a page titled "Audio buses":

#8670 would go a long way in helping with some of the cases we discovered, but the above should (hopefully) be fairly general improvements.

stsewd · 2024-11-04T14:47:01Z

Exact matches, all terms being in the exact order (as opposed to matching only parts, or in different term order) seem to not be valued enough.

Do you have a search example for this case?

Titles and document file names seem to count too little.

These are the boost we set for page title and section titles

Lines 271 to 272 in 7198d3d

    
           _outer_fields = ["title^1.5"] 
        
           _section_fields = ["sections.title^2", "sections.content"]

We can try boosting the page title with 2 as well.

humitos added the Improvement Minor improvement to code label Nov 4, 2024