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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal
If you are saying you want search results sorted by relevance, that be something worth doing, though what algorithm would decide the "relevance" of a match?
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That might indeed be worth having. Intuitively, I'd suggest something like the completeness of the match, thus, given a search across all metadata fields for the string "smith", for example a book by an author named Smith would have higher relevance than a publication by the Smithsonian.
Edit to add: However (I'm thinking as I type here, so bear with me, please), the search result are, I believe, usually sorted by whatever criteria the library is currently sorted, which, in my eyes at least, would be preferable to a sorting by relevance.