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Search returns wrong results

Mick Davidson_o2ws6w

Hello,

I'm using the page tree search on the Home page of a space. When I search for something that looks like:

abc_aword

the first three results are all dated Jul 13, 2011. However, the 4th example is Apr 11, 2013 as this is the most recently edited page. The first three results all have titles similar in format to this:

716 abc_aword(abc abc)

Given how far in the past the first three results are, AND that the 4th result matches my query more closely (exactly in fact), why isn't the most recently edited page the first result?

Cheers.

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Ramiro P

Hi Mick, here it is a documentation where explains how is the ranking of results it's managed:

https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Ranking+of+Search+Results

Check it out.

Mick Davidson_o2ws6w

Ramiro,

thanks. I've just been looking at that and it doesn't clarify the problem. Why would pages that haven't been edited in years be more worth looking at than something that was edited more recently? That doesn't make any sense to me, especially given the older results have a different page name?

My search term doesn't include numbers, yet pages with are the first results in the list. Surely pages with numbers in the title would feature further down the list give what I'm searching on?

Cheers.

Ramiro P

That documentation only explains how it works. You can of course create an issue on Atlassian's Jira to add a new feature or an improvement.

Cheers!

Mick Davidson_o2ws6w

I'm not sure it does explain how it works actually.

For example, why does it use User Profiles and why are they so heavily weighted? Cheers.

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