What is a ranking model in SharePoint 2013 search?

Hello Tapan,

Basically, The ranking models provide an effective ranking of results without any further customization. A ranking model contains a collection of ranking features to calculate the rank score of a particular item, for example a document, in the search results. The type of content that is ranked determines the set of ranking features that the ranking model uses and the relative importance of these different ranking features .

SharePoint 2013 provides the following types of ranking models:

General purpose ranking models.
General purpose ranking models compute the relevance rank for most types of search results.
People search ranking models.
People search ranking models compute the relevance rank for search results that are related to people. They calculate, among other things, how relevant search results are based on social distance and expertise.
Special purpose ranking models.
Special purpose ranking models compute the relevance rank for search results related to various specific ranking scenarios. For example, there is a ranking model to calculate the ranking score for recommendations and there are ranking models to calculate relevance ranks for cross-site publishing sites that have an associated product catalog.

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Rajkiran Swain9y ago
Accepted answer
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Create-a-custom-ranking-model-by-using-the-Ranking-Model-Tuning-App-345be622-2f63-450c-bd65-869ce830b7c1

https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/tothesharepoint/2013/06/11/changing-the-ranking-of-search-results-in-sharepoint-2013/

https://powersearching.wordpress.com/2013/03/29/how-sharepoint-2013-ranking-models-work/
Tejas Trivedi9y ago
Hello Tapan,

Basically, The ranking models provide an effective ranking of results without any further customization. A ranking model contains a collection of ranking features to calculate the rank score of a particular item, for example a document, in the search results. The type of content that is ranked determines the set of ranking features that the ranking model uses and the relative importance of these different ranking features .
SharePoint 2013 provides the following types of ranking models:
General purpose ranking models.
General purpose ranking models compute the relevance rank for most types of search results.
People search ranking models.
People search ranking models compute the relevance rank for search results that are related to people. They calculate, among other things, how relevant search results are based on social distance and expertise.
Special purpose ranking models.
Special purpose ranking models compute the relevance rank for search results related to various specific ranking scenarios. For example, there is a ranking model to calculate the ranking score for recommendations and there are ranking models to calculate relevance ranks for cross-site publishing sites that have an associated product catalog.
Hope this will help you out. feel free to write if more information is required.

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