Balancing Business Goals and Text Relevance with Algolia Custom Ranking
Custom ranking lets you promote bestsellers or newer items in Algolia search results, but over-weighting it can bury exact keyword matches. Here is how to tune it safely.
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Custom ranking lets you promote bestsellers or newer items in Algolia search results, but over-weighting it can bury exact keyword matches. Here is how to tune it safely.
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A repeatable development environment requires index settings for custom ranking to be versioned and reproduced consistently across dev and staging. Custom ranking allows an unlimited number of attributes in the configuration. Public documentation does not specify a documented constraint or performance guideline for a safe maximum number of attributes. Withou