when I crawl, and then search, the most recently crawled sites are higher ranked by solr
how does one turn this off?
That is what /date option in search query should do (and somehow does). From my experience, if I repeat the query after few seconds, the latest crawled pages are not favoured so much. Did you find any clue in how it’s evaluated?
If you’re Java reader, search logic should be done here: yacy_search_server/source/net/yacy/search at master · yacy/yacy_search_server · GitHub
But if you do some experiments, would be nice if you share the results here.