When entering a search term and getting back the results sorted by score, is there a way to get it to return slightly randomized results? I don't mean totally random. I mean maybe a small random multiplier could be added to all the scores on the server side so that it still displays more relevant r…

How to return slightly randomized results?

dadoonet (David Pilato) July 2, 2019, 10:54am 2

You can use Random Score for now: See https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/query-dsl-function-score-query.html

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