cabennett85/gittest — Issue #1210: Give higher weight to cause name in BC search results
Author: cabennett85
Created: 2012-03-02 00:41:18+00:00
State: open

From the email thread: "Improving BC Search Results":
"Right now it seems like a fulltext search of titles and mission statements, but it doesn't weight the cause name any higher than the mission statement, so even if your query matched a cause name exactly, it might show up low on the list. Overall, I get the impression of searches not being very relevant"

Solution:

On querying (but not on indexing), you can specify field weights -
http://sphinxsearch.com/docs/manual-0.9.9.html#api-func-setfieldweights

This is a pure guess, but we can start with the following weights:
{{{
cause url: 100
cause name: 100
headline: 50
mission statement (description): 20
why you should care: 20
}}}