[Wactclc-alma] [EXTERNAL] - Boost ranking for English language materials

[Adrienne Roush]

Thanks Amy. I'm glad I wasn't just missing something obvious.
Maybe if I boosted the title matching that would do it, if the student enters a search word in English.
I'll try that, as well.
Adrienne

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You might have to open a case? My impression is that we can only directly "control" only a very small part of the proprietary ranking algorithm.  I recently boosted keywords found in TITLE to 100 (from 3.5) and haven't noticed any real difference.  Although I did read that you can boost all the way up to 1,000,000!

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Hi all,
I haven't been able to find the answer to this. I would like English language results to be ranked higher in the search results in Primo.
I can find ranking for 'language' but that appears to only be a keyword-match ranking, not a result list ranking.
I hope this makes sense. I do like having results in multiple languages, but when most (not all) of our students want English language materials and the top 5 books in a list are all German and Italian, it is frustrating.
Thanks for any thoughts!
Adrienne

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