Search Index score

[Forensik]

Results of Search Index contain a field named "Score".
Can you plse explain signficance of Score and how score is calculated.
The higher the Score the more significant the result is, True??

Best regards

[David (PassMark)]

Yes, the higher the score the more relevant the result is to the search terms.

The value depends on,

• The number of times the searched term appears in that document / E-Mail.
• The number of search terms that appears on the page in the case of a multi-word search.
• The individual words that form part of an "exact phrase" query.
• The density of the search terms in the document.
• Whether the word(s) appear in the title, meta description, meta keywords, header tags part of the page or in the file name.