doc size / relevancy

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basement_addict
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Is there a control/knob that will allow the document size to get calculated in the ranking algorithm?

I noticed when the contents of the field being searched on contains a short amount of text it gets ranked higher

doc 1) description = "linux"
doc 2) description = "we use linux as our operating system and texis for our search engine"

searching on 'linux' and sorting by relevancy will return doc 1 ranked higher.

Is there a way to change that?
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That may be getting ranked higher because the word is closer to the beginning of the document. You can also use a calculated order by using any valid SQL expression.
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