Discussion: How should search results be ranked 📃?

[Pasanna]

@Snowbird

Perhaps the number of times a keyword appears in the sutta. A sutta that had the word “consciousness” 10 times might be more relevant than if it only mentioned it once or twice.

This is what I would have expected to be the primary weighting.

Then, if there are two or more suttas with the same score I think your suggestions about the number of translations is reasonable.

However, if I’m looking for a sutta with an elephant in it, then I might not be looking for the most densely ‘elephanted’ sutta- as opposed to if I’m looking for a sutta on consciousness. In this instance the title and the summary of the sutta would be useful in the weighting… which takes us back to the other thread on search criteria/filters. What about in:title and in:summary but either way these criteria seem important.

Uggh search is complex.