The goal of search is to get readers to relevant content. There are many things happening behind the scenes to help make this happen. As much as possible, our goal is to provide a search that works really well out-of-the-box while also giving you vi...
When a search is performed, relevance algorithms are used to weight the results. The algorithms assign a score to each matching search result, and the search results are ranked by score. The following are simplified explanations of the types of alg...
Stemming is the process of reducing words to their base or root form. For example, "searching", "searches", and "searcher" can all be reduced to the word "search". This is called the stem. In our search, stemming happens automatically in the backgr...
The knowledge base index is where we store your article content and meta data after we process and optimize it for searching. When you save an article, we automatically digest and analyze your content for the index. This process involves: Strippi...
We have all new search documentation to go with our all new smarter search! Overall search improvements Smarter search engine, powered by Elasticsearch Ability to customize the search weights and scoring Multi-word synonyms Suppor...