How to balance search relevance with lots of images in Elasticsearch?

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Quick question for the community: has anyone here tried indexing pages that are heavy on visuals?

I’ve seen cases where full-text search works fine for pure articles, but when the page has lots of images + short descriptions (example: fashionismic-edgar-haircut), the results feel less accurate.

Do you usually stick to body text only, or include extra metadata like captions/alt tags in your indices?

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Welcome to the community, Jessica!

Good question when dealing with image-heavy pages, it helps to enrich documents with metadata like captions, alt tags, and surrounding text. Index those fields with analyzers and use boost or function_score to balance their weight. Body text stays important, but metadata gives extra signals to improve relevance.