Azure Search

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  1. Extend Tag Boosting by "searching" instead of "filtering"

    Azure Search with Tag Boosting will give a boost to documents that have "exact" tags in common with the input query.

    If a tag in index is "salt lake city" and one from query is "salt lake", the document doesn't get a boost. Even worse, since I believe Tag matching is using "filter" routine, it is case-sensitive.

    Yes, we can do multi-column search, but one column search with tag boosting is a way more fast and returns better relevance results focusing on the main column.

    So it would be great if Azure Search extends the current Tag Boosting to use…

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    • Add machine learned ranking models

      Similar to Solr's (small) capabilities
      https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/solr/Learning+To+Rank

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      • Proximity ranking

        when searching for two or more terms, give a higher rank value to terms near to each other

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        • Random Scoring

          See here https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/guide/current/random-scoring.html
          This has come up in the past on SO by other users as well.

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          • Allow lucene search syntax or scoring profiles in suggestions

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            • extend scoring profile to support list

              As described in this link
              http://stackoverflow.com/questions/27117663/azure-search-scoring-profile-on-list

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              • Add proximity scoring for numeric fields

                For a numeric field, boost score depending on absolute distance from the field value.

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