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Modern Search - Order in People Search Result
Hi Philine,
The order that the people show up in the search results is relevance driven. I wouldn't be able to give you an exact rundown of how relevance is calcualted, but it takes into account various types of matches, including match on the name, title, position as well as match on skills, projects etc.
There is currently noway to remove results from people search in the modern search experience. Kathrine Hammervold, Bernt Ivar Olsen for more details once they are back from vacation.
Hi Alina, @Kathrine Hammervold, @Bernt Ivar Olsen
Don't want to split hairs, but looking at other users search results with the same query I can't see a difference in relevance. All poeple are listed in the same order when using dfferent user accounts to do so. And that order does not make any 'sense', eg no obvious closer connection to staff listed at the top, not A-Z or whatever it might be weighted by.
We are tweaking entries in the AD and user profile to improve search results. I have noticed that the Office field plays a role in listings, however the adress fields eg city / country doesn't. Odd, but good to know.
Is there a list where we can see what other fields in the AD are used/not used for search?
Thanks
- Currently the relevance is not personalized but rather based on a set of overall weights that are the same for all users in the company. There is work being done by the team that owns search to make the results more personally relevant to the user that is searching, but I'll have to defer to @Kathrine and @Bernt to provide more details on this.
Thanks Alina