# Prioritizing content more effectively in search

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/prioritizing-content-more-effectively-in-search/63010
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [2017年五月19日 13:15 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/prioritizing-content-more-effectively-in-search/63010 "2017-05-19T13:15:40Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author: ![schungx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/schungx/32/70989_2.png) [@schungx](https://meta.discourse.org/u/schungx)
#### Post date: [2017年十二月13日 06:06 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/prioritizing-content-more-effectively-in-search/63010/24 "2017-12-13T06:06:19Z")

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Keeping a median or mode of post times with the topic will be an indicator on how recent this topic is. Doing it on the last [n] posts will be a measure of how fresh the topic.

In addition to category up/down bumps, sort by freshness.

A much-linked topic may not be fresh at all. Just very relevant during a particular period of time in history. Other than faq’s ans howto’s, which can simply be bumped.

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### Author: ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [2019年四月2日 08:19 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/prioritizing-content-more-effectively-in-search/63010/25 "2019-04-02T08:19:28Z")

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@tgxworld has done A LOT recently to improve the story here.

Including:

- Smarter indexing (we clean up a lot of previous mess that used to live in indexes)

- Per category search weights

- Smarter relevance scoring (that takes into account the length of posts better)

and more…

So for the OP here we used to have:

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/5/f/5f96c9862d20773cdf446a60b7bf72be982739bf.png)

We now have:

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/b/9/b94a4339fd154d746e91b913eafe62e294e0fb13.png)

I find the new results a lot better.

We are not 100% done with the OP, it may make sense to do per-topic priority at some point and allow mods to promote topics.

But … instead of carrying this topic open for more years I feel we can close this off for now.

@tgxworld will do a writeup about the new admin knobs once he is done.

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### Author: ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [2019年四月2日 08:19 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/prioritizing-content-more-effectively-in-search/63010/26 "2019-04-02T08:19:34Z")

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