Is XRANK depracating in Sharepoint online search api?

Question

I have found this article from Microsoft forum 1971119 in that they mention that Microsoft is deprecating XRANK query.
I am using below code whether this code also Impacting. Please let me know its deprecating in feature. Please suggest me.

// provide a default query text at creation
var queryOptions={
RowLimit: 100,
StartRow: 0,
};
var query=* XRANK(cb=100) Title:test;
let q2 =SearchQueryBuilder(query,queryOptions);

const results =sp.search(q2);
results.then((item:SearchResults)=>{
console.log(item.PrimarySearchResults);
})

Answer 1

Hi @MD_Musavvir ,

XRANK operator is not depracating in FQL (FAST Query Language).

The article you mentioned is saying COUNT operator and FILTER operator is deprecated inFQL. XRANK operator is not affected. You could still use it in the query.

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