External click tracking

[jon_elwood]

Is there a way of configuring Funnelback to look at a particular metadata field in content and using that to rank/weight the results? I had a look at the query processor options and can see that we can weight metadata fields and also use click tracking data (Funnelback's data) but I can't see a way of using a numerical value within the metadata to achieve the same effect.

The scenario is - if we have content weight at authoring time or a weighting that is adjusted based on users viewing but also liking/finding useful/referring to others etc.

[gordongrace]

Hi @jon_elwood -

The Query Independent Evidence mechanism might be the best way to achieve this functionality. You may need to construct a workflow that:

1. Lists out the URLs and normalised numeric values containing the desired weight (either from authored metadata or web analytics)
2. Saves this file to $SEARCH_HOME/conf/COLLECTION/qie.cfg
3. Applies the new QIE to the collection

You'll then need to enable the cool.4 ranking option applied as a query processor option.

See also:
* https://docs.funnelback.com/15.10/more/extra/query_independent_evidence.html
* https://community.funnelback.com/knowledge-base/implementation/query-processing/ranking/upweight-or-downweight-sections-of-a-site-in-the-search-results
* https://community.funnelback.com/knowledge-base/implementation/Gather-And-Index/workflow/using-the-funnelback-index-to-generate-gscope-and-kill-configuration-files#toc-nav2
* https://docs.funnelback.com/15.10/more/extra/post_index_command_collection_cfg.html

[jon_elwood]

Thanks Gordon - I'll take a look at this.

[plevan]

Hi Jon,

I gave a bit more of a detailed response to this on your other post.

I'd just like to add one thing - for Gordon's suggestion of https://community.funnelback.com/knowledge-base/implementation/Gather-And-Index/workflow/using-the-funnelback-index-to-generate-gscope-and-kill-configuration-files#toc-nav21 you need to look at the alternate method because you need to inject the values that you have in your metadata (and that won't work with the padre-sw -res=qiecfg mode.