If a Democrat and a Republican both index different websites for the same exact keyword.
How does the public YaCy index decide who ranks higher? Yeah it goes into Solr algo, but how’s the algo decide whose right?
Hi and welcome, James!
That’s a good question!
Basicaly, IMO, every peer decides about a ranking, based on its ranking settings.
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I understand thank you
So it will ask the other peers for data, and then depending on the local rank settings, will sort their submissions
Here is probably a basic misunderstanding. Indexing/Crawling is not done for a specific keyword.
Documents are loaded and indexed independently from search words/keywords before any search can take place.
When a search happens and both documents are in the index, then solr decides the ranking based on the TF*IDF ranking rule which means: if the keyword appears more frequently in the document, it is ranked higher. Simple as that.
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Got it, understood. Thanks so much
But the ranking rules exhibit as well? Or not in the p2p mode, when asking the other peers?