What determines the likelihood of relevance? PLWeb Turbo performs a content analysis of records in your database by using a combination of the following indicators:
This allows you to find more relevant information with less effort. Regardless of how many records your search query retrieves, you will have to review relatively few of them, because moving down the ranking means moving toward less relevant records. With relevance ranking, you will spend less time reviewing search results before deciding whether they are satisfactory.
Additionally, you are free from the burden of composing complex logical queries, which are used to reduce the amount of retrieved data to manageable proportions. You don't have to care about how many records are retrieved, as long as you know that the best information floats to the top.
Note: Now you can see why stopwords exist. Because words like the and of are so commonly used in English, their presence could artificially boost the relevance of what are actually irrelevant documents. Stopwords also provide a speed advantage, since a search for the would probably retrieve every record in a database.[Previous Topic] [Contents] [Next Topic]