Relevancy Help How Relevancy Works Relevancy ranking occurs only for Quick Searches. Each word in the catalog is searched. Words in the catalog record may be weighted differently. For example, subject heading words are weighted high, but words which occur as part of a publication place are weighted low.
Phrases actually get a double bonus because they automatically receive the proximity bonus.
Since the word can appear in multiple fields, the bonus assigned will look at the occurrence in each field to assign the bonus points. The results are ranked based on a unique score relative to the theoretical maxiumu score for each record, and are displayed based on this rank.