Improved Ranking: Overall Relevance and Navigation

We have switched on an improved algorithm. This includes two major changes that provide improvement to:

  • general relevancy
  • navigational searches

This should improve overall rankings, as shown in testing, And it has benefitted from the recent user feedback via the evaluator - thank you. Further feedback is, as always, welcome but particularly so with this change.

Navigational searches can sometimes be negatively impacted by this update. So please let us know when this happens or you encounter issues. You can test again the the old algorithm using &m=152.

This is not (yet) the default for the API but can be switched on with m=168.

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