How to improve the order of the result?

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hi, @Lascapi!

  1. you can play with setting the ranking rules, changing the priority of various elements. that helped me a lot.

  2. there is something like Google’s PageRank, called CitationRank, which will boost pages the more, the more other pages link to them. see faq. not sure about how efficient is that, there had been several threads in the forum:
    Documentation unclear about webgraph vs Reverse Link Index
    How to activate and rank by CR - citation rank

  1. I look forward, whether vector search, already present in solr, will ever be implemented in yacy as well. that can help a lot with relevancy. do you have any plans with that, @orbiter ?

and yes, relevancy is one of biggest pains for me as well. it resembles altavista in the old times, before google came in.

yacy is useful for me in niché searches, where no other search engines have not indexed the whole sites. and good in a full control of index/search. but still with mixed results.

@orbiter is diving in all these new thrilling AI functions, whereas the “core” functions like crawler, indexer, search, RWI etc. contain a lot of inefficiencies or bugs and would need some developers or rather a team to improve.

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