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Rank of Search Results
posted by christinekimSTAFFMOD on April 17, 2015 at 2:38 PM
Can you give insight into what puts one entry above another in search results?
I am seeing an error when I search for "Dean Jones"
The 1st result is a makeupartist Dean Jones with 5 credits... I am really looking for the Dean Jones (actor) with 61 credits. His profile is much more complete, with bio, profile pictures, etc yet he is the second result in a search query
Reply by Travis Bell
on April 17, 2015 at 11:05 PM
Hi christinekim,
They are sorted primarily by the relevancy score returned by ElasticSearch but are boosted by their popularity. I think we apply a maximum 20% score boost based on their popularity.
If you look up these search results on the API, you'll see that the David Jones (id 1159944) has a popularity score of ~7.3 while the other David Jones (id 40393) has a popularity ~5.4. Given they have probably an identical search score, the higher popularity record will get returned first.
David Jones (id 1159944) is probably a little abnormally high in popularity right now because of Fast and Furious. Pretty much everything attached to that franchise has trended up over the past 60 days.
Reply by christinekim
on April 18, 2015 at 8:19 PM
Makes total sense with the Fast and Furious movie..