Ok, so this raises an independent question for future projects (like I said, this one is too small to invest this sort of effort in)... If the query is something like a Z39.50 query (where I have no control over what gets returned in what order), how would you approach ranking what comes back? -Ross. Jason Etheridge wrote: > Roy Tennant wrote: > >> The kind of mixed AND/OR search is apparently what Google does, since >> the more words from your search that are in a particular result, the >> higher it tends to be in the ranking. It has been interesting, for >> someone introduced to searching with command-line Dialog searches to >> see where we are at this point, with searches that would have failed >> miserably in Dialog working pretty darn well by using strategies such >> as those described below, and others. > > > I think that's a more succinct way of putting it. The relevancy of a > search hit should be determined by the number of matching terms. > > -- Jason > http://open-ils.org/ >