Ranking by Profit and Popularity in Elasticsearch
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The article discusses how to rank search results in Elasticsearch by both profit and popularity, and the discussion revolves around the technical implementation.
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2 months ago
In this article, you will learn how to combine BM25 relevance with real business metrics like profit margin and popularity using Elasticsearch’s function_score query. This step-by-step guide shows how to control scaling with logarithmic boosts and allows full explainability for each ranking calculation.
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