Acquia Search Configuration - Search Fields
Search fields tab
(?q=admin/settings/apachesolr/query-fields)
What is search bias? - On this tab, you can give "bias" to certain content fields and elements. This influences their nodes' importance in search results. The higher the score, the higher those results will appear in search results. Omitted fields will not be included in search results.
Field bias settings
- Field bias - These settings increase the importance in search results of certain fields or elements within your content.
- How bias affects search results - The higher the number, the more importance will be given to search term matches that originate from the element in question.
- Omit - Omitted fields will not be searched.
Available fields
- Body text - the full, rendered content - overlaps with the value for "Inline tags", can cause a "double bias" effect.
- Author name
- Path alias - node alias or URL
- Body text inside links (A tags)
- Body text inside H1 tags - overlaps with the value for "Title", can cause a "double bias" effect.
- Body text inside H2 or H3 tags
- Body text inside H4, H4, or H6 tags
- Body text in inline tags like EM or STRONG - overlaps with the value for "body", can cause a "double bias" effect.
- All taxonomy term names - bias for all taxonomy terms from all vocabularies
- Title - overlaps with the value for "H1", can cause a "double bias" effect.
- Taxonomy term names only from the [X] vocabulary - individual setting for each vocabulary on your site
How is overlap between the
How is overlap between the two taxonomy settings handled? For instance: would an "omit" in the individual taxonomy vocabularies take precedence over the bias value for all taxonomy terms or are the individual bias values added onto the base value for all term names for a "double bias"?
Robert Douglass
Hi Kevin, There is the
Hi Kevin,
There is the possibility for a double bias. Omit in this case might better read as "Don't mess with the scoring in any way". Where there are two ways to influence things (Body text vs specific tags inside the body text), the effect is indeed cumulative.
In the end, trial and error is still the best approach to tuning your search scorings. Develop a concept of what you should find when you search for "X", and for "Y" and for "X and Y", and then do the searches, note where things land, try changing some settings, and try the searches again. Search relevancy is a subjective thing, which is why you have so many controls available.
Robert Douglass
Senior Drupal Advisor, Acquia