# Ranking of search results

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/ranking-of-search-results/132988
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [9 בנובמבר,‏ 2019,‏ 9:25am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ranking-of-search-results/132988 "2019-11-09T09:25:11Z")
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### Author: ![MarcP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/marcp/32/160184_2.png) [@MarcP](https://meta.discourse.org/u/MarcP)
#### Post date: [9 בנובמבר,‏ 2019,‏ 9:25am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ranking-of-search-results/132988/1 "2019-11-09T09:25:11Z")

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I have been trying to find more about the search ranking algorithms. I know about category priority, but does it take other metrics to determine a search result?

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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: [11 בנובמבר,‏ 2019,‏ 11:53pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ranking-of-search-results/132988/2 "2019-11-11T23:53:42Z")

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It takes a lot of stuff, including heavier weight for title similarity, body similarity and other metrics.

If you are curious feel free to read through [search.rb](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/0c0192e7dabf6959c4248fa0454da206ac9c780f/lib/search.rb#L902-L902) file.

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### Author: ![system](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/system/32/443519_2.png) [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [4 באוגוסט,‏ 2023,‏ 6:27pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ranking-of-search-results/132988/3 "2023-08-04T18:27:06Z")

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### Author: ![system](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/system/32/443519_2.png) [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [11 בספטמבר,‏ 2023,‏ 10:59am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ranking-of-search-results/132988/4 "2023-09-11T10:59:07Z")

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