Search Defaults

In the Search Defaults you define the default query, the number of results per page, and the Boostfactors.

Boostfactors can help you tune the results of a query. It allows you the specify the importance of the attributes of a document with respect to a search result.

By default a given query such as 'java "method invocation" rmi' looks for these terms in the contents of a document. By setting boost factors for other attributes of a document, such as title, name, and summary you can tune the result of a query.

Normally you start with contents (boostfactor 1.0), and then specify that you want a occurence of the query terms within the summary of a document to be twice as important as a hit within the contents, you specify a boostfactor of 2.0.

The example above rates an occurrence of query terms within summary to be two times as important as within contents, the title three and the name four times.