Thread:Talk:Search/LiquidThreads archive/'Old search' is better/reply (8)

It boosts the weighting of results that have the "film" infobox on the page. I don't think they plan to maintain the old search indefinitely, so forgive me if I hijack the thread with some ideas about how to make the new one work better for your purposes.

I'm wondering if it would be possible to implement a weighting method that uses boost-templates under the hood, by mapping certain high-confidence templates to the occurrence of certain associated terms (when not used in a phrase). For instance, if "documentary", "movie", etc implied a boost to the "Infobox film" template. Sorry if this isn't feasible or is already implemented in some way, I'm pretty ignorant of the weighting magic, like I said...