Boosting Hits

Boosted Hits allows you to promote content, by specifying which hits should always display as the top hits for a particular query.

Boosted hits are organized into groups, where each group represents a specific boosting order. Note that the search results for boosted hits may be impacted by the maximum number of results to be displayed defined in the Max fetched hits per slice and Total No. of fetched hits parameters (see the Administration Console > Search > Search Logics > Limits tab).

This task shows you how to:

See Also
Testing Modifications
Boosting Facets

Add a new Boosted Hit group

  1. On the Business Console Home page, click Configure in the Boosted Hits box.
  2. On the Boosted Hits page, click Add in the Boosted Hits List box.
    1. For Expression, type the query for which you want to boost specific hits.
    2. Select a Matching Mode. A partial match applies to queries where at least one word matches. An exact match applies to queries strictly identical to the Expression defined in step a.
    3. For Group, type a name for this boosted hit configuration.
  3. Click Accept.

Define a boosted hit

  1. On the Business Console Home page, click Configure in the Boosted Hits box.
  2. Under Boosted Hits List, select a group.
  3. Under Boosted Hits for: Your_group, in the list of matching documents, click the document you want to boost.
  4. At the bottom of the document details section that displays, click Set first.

    This document now displays on the boosted hit list.

  5. Repeat Step 3 to Step 4 for up to five boosted hits.
  6. Test your modifications.

Add additional expressions to a Boosted Hit group

  1. On the Business Console Home page, click Configure in the Boosted Hits box.
  2. Under Boosted Hit List, select a group and then click Add.
    1. For Expression, type the query for which you want to boost specific hits.
    2. Select a Matching Mode. A partial match applies to queries where at least one word matches.
  3. Click Accept.
  4. Repeat the previous steps for all the expressions you want to associate with these boosted hits.
  5. Test your modifications.

Re-order a boosted hit

  1. On the Business Console Home page, click Configure in the Boosted Hits box.
  2. Under Boosted Hits List, select a group that you want to reorder.
  3. Under Boosted Hits for: Your_group, select the boosted hit expression.
  4. Navigate though the boosted hits list in Boosted Hits for... and click either Set first, Set second, Set third, Set fourth or Set fifth to reorder a specific result hit.
  5. Test your modifications.

Remove a boosted hit

  1. On the Business Console Home page, click Configure in the Boosted Hits box.
  2. Under Boosted Hits List, select the boosted hit group for which you want to remove a boosted hit.
  3. Under Boosted Hits for: Your_group, click the boosted hit to display the details, and then click Cancel.
  4. Test your modifications.

Disable proximity boost for consistent results

When the boosted hits feature is activated, the order of your search results may be impacted by the Exalead CloudView proximity boost feature. For consistent results, we recommend disabling proximity boost.

  1. In the Administration Console, go to Search > Search Logics > search logic > Sort & Relevance.
  2. Under Proximity Boost, clear the Enable option.
  3. Click Apply.