Sharepoint 2019 Search Query Tool

Question

Hi All, I have a group of sites included in an enterprise search center. particular sites I'd like to have more weight in search results relevancy than the others. How do I use XRANK to do that? I've made a few tries at the syntax and can't seem to get it to work. Example is below. I'd like siteA to have a large boost

{searchboxquery} (Path:http://siteA) XRANK(NB=1.5) Path:siteb Path:sitec Path:sited

Answer 1

Hi @Hicham JAMAL,

According to my research and testing, if you want to use XRANK to sort search results, you can follow these steps:

1. Select the Search Results Web Part, and edit its properties.
2. Click on "Change Query".
3. Select "Sorting" in the top navigation.
4. 1. Select "Rank" in "Sort by", then click "Add dynamic ordering rule", and fill in "Change ranking when" as required, for example:
   2. You can refer to the following XRANK expression:

{searchboxquery} (Path:http://siteA) XRANK(cb=500)

More information for reference: How To Sort Search Results by using XRANK and Query Rules?

Similar issue: Boost site in search results with XRANK / KQL

Hope it can help you. Thanks for your understanding.

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