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How to weight in full-text search?

Keyword match vs. page rank: Any search engine that allows manual control of weight between these two factors?

  • Keyword match = how much the page content is related to the query. Page rank = global rank (quality, popularity) of a page. (in my definition, not sure if these are the right terms)   Is there any search engine with input slider for example, that would control weight between these two? So if we got many results that are unrelated to our query, we could move it towards "keyword match". And if results are too specific, we could move it a little towards "page rank", to broaden search, and get more quality results, that may not have exactly the same title as our query, but are what we are looking for too.

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    It's more complicated than that -- the most likely result is discovering that you were already at a local maximum. Also, the main effect of pagerank is its use to weight incoming anchortext, which is a computation that you can't redo quickly for the tens-to-millions of inlinks for the large number of pages that might be good answers to your query.

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If I am not totally wrong, keyword match and page rank are different things (if you mean the google way of page ranking). Keyword match is the main mechanism for a search engine and page ranking is the way of defining more qualified type of results for your matching keywords so the purpose of page ranking is to increase the accuracy of the results that comes with your keywords matches.

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