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  2. CONFSERVER-12925

Improvement to search ranking needs to be documented

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      On implementing CONF-12918 there is now an additional factor involved in ranking search results which should probably be documented at -

      http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Ranking+of+Search+Results

      This new factor is the age of a result. The boosting is quite coarse grained and is as follows -

      Document Creation Time Boost Factor
      Today 1.5
      Yesterday 1.3
      Up to 1 week ago 1.25
      Up to 1 month ago 1.2
      Up to 3 months ago 1.15
      Up to 6 months ago 1.10
      Up to 1 Year ago 1.05
      Beyond a year no boost

      The boost factor is pretty small so want have a large affect. However if two documents match in all other ways then the newer one will be presented first. However, if two documents being compared are both older than a year then their relative recentness does not matter.

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            pcurren Paul Curren
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