Forum Discussion
PhilineVon
Jul 31, 2017Steel Contributor
Modern Search - Order in People Search Result
Trying to understand the order people are displayed in in a search result. Searching for staff in certain area gives me a good selection, I would like to understand the order though. Is there a way...
PhilineVon
Aug 17, 2017Steel Contributor
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
Alina Skarbovsky
Aug 17, 2017Former Employee
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.
- PhilineVonAug 18, 2017Steel Contributor
Thanks Alina