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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