How to provide most relevant results with Multiple Factor Weighted Sorting

As mentioned in the comments, I would suggest what’s called the ‘compromise solution’ to anyone with a similar problem who is more concerned with not having to set weights than with making one criterion more heavily weighted than the others. Basically, you consider each of your criterion as a coordinate (after normalization, of course). Based … Read more

How can I manipulate MySQL fulltext search relevance to make one field more ‘valuable’ than another?

Create three full text indexes a) one on the keyword column b) one on the content column c) one on both keyword and content column Then, your query: SELECT id, keyword, content, MATCH (keyword) AGAINST (‘watermelon’) AS rel1, MATCH (content) AGAINST (‘watermelon’) AS rel2 FROM table WHERE MATCH (keyword,content) AGAINST (‘watermelon’) ORDER BY (rel1*1.5)+(rel2) DESC … Read more

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