From: Date: March 1 2005 6:10pm
Subject: Re: Useful Relevance with FullText Boolean Mode - help
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Hi!

On Feb 26, leegold wrote:
> Is there any way to make relevance when using boolean mode more useful?
> If not, are there plans in the future Fulltext development "todo" for
> making it useful?

Current relevance formula is described in internals.texi (see mysqldoc
repository on mysql.bkbits.net).

Plans - yes, if the current one is bad.
But I don't know what to put instead.
Feel free to suggest a better weighting scheme :)

Regards,
Sergei

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