+feature request

Each company wanted to have great search functionality and easier adjustable

I really would like to haven an option to increase the importance of labels in the ranking of the search results. Especially with searches with only one term, a page having a label matching this term should rank higher than a page with just some mentioning of the term somewhere in the page content. 

And it would be nice to be able to define a set of labels to make a page rank higher or lower. Like all pages labeled "how-to-page" resulting in a higher ranking in the search results and all pages labeled "outdated" resulting in lower ranking in the search result.

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I see we can develop using the search decorator - https://developer.atlassian.com/server/confluence/search-decorator-module-tutorial/ but we are not development team and write our own custom plugin.

+1 on this feature request! This ticket was created in 2009 and since then accumulated 117 votes can a representative from Confluence please take a look. Please and thank you. 

This would be incredibly helpful to pass our AS9100 audit requirements. 

On my non-cloud Confluence instance, when i enter something into the search field, the popup search options/results includes an "Advanced search" option.  Under the "Advanced search", there's a "Content Type" option.   Any possibility of adding additional content types?  Eg., "Help pages", "FAQ pages", "Standards & Policies pages", etc

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I do agree a fully with Peter's observation

The following errors disturb us in the lucene ranking of the search results:

• Attachments get way too many points. They get points for:
  o Title: They are equal to Confluence pages which makes no sense for us
  o ContentBody: If, for example, in a PDF the document title is listed in its footer on each page, it will collect many additional points for this !?!
  o content-name-unstemmed: Why ever

• Often search results that are ranked too high have additional points with content-name-unstemmed, especially attachments. What is content-name-unstemmed for?
• Confluence page titles have too little weight. Because most of us try to search for a page title
• boostByModificationDate has too little weight compared to other ranking points. We work in a development department where the latest findings are usually the most important.
• My last edited or viewed pages do not get any points in the search (they are only listed when the search is opened, after typing any character to the search field this information is ignored)

Maybe this will give you some hints what should at least be adjustable in the ranking (instead of opening the full Lucene configuration, which would be even better )

This would be very helpful. If I am searching for a page titled "Company Policies and Guidance", which has a tag of "policies", and use the search string "Policies" I get 13 results with the word "Policy" in their title, and the desired page is 14th. To reiterate, the first 13 results do not contain the word for which I am searching. 

Confluence employees: if this feature is not going to be considered, please close it as such.

We would also like to see this feature implemented.  We have a number of spaces that we would like to be excluded from the main search, as well as the ability to weight pages based on which space their in, the documentation space vs the knowledge base space.   We just upgraded to version 7.1 and the search is better but it would be great if we had more control.