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title: Customize my DocSearch
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---
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## What content do we recommend to index?
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### Code blocks
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We **do not recommend** indexing **code tags** since code blocks are most likely
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very similar and redundant from one page to another.
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You can exclude code blocks by adding their matching selectors to `selectors_exclude`.
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A good practice would be to emphasize the meaningful underlying part of it
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thanks to a dedicated class, which you will want to add to the `text` selector
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in your configuration file.
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For example, in this code snippet, you can exclude the code but the parameters of the function:
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```
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<code>
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function(<toIndex>something useful to search for</toIndex>)
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...
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</code>
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```
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### Table of contents
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The elements of the table of contents only *target* but do not provide content.
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They are merely a step on the way to reaching relevant content. As a result, they are
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almost always in a different place from the payload. This is why we consider the
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table of contents an obstacle for DocSearch to find the coveted information.
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We therefore **do not recommend** indexing the elements of the table of contents; their matching
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selectors should be added to `selectors_exclude`.
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## How are my DocSearch records ranked?
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DocSearch empowers the Algolia ranking strategy. The formula is completely
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based on [the tie-breaking approach](https://www.algolia.com/doc/guides/ranking/ranking-formula/#tie-breaking-approach).
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The special feature of DocSearch's ranking resides in [the custom ranking](https://www.algolia.com/doc/guides/ranking/custom-ranking/):
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We have defined 3 main weight indicators for every record. These values are
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ordered by importance following the tie-breaking approach:
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1. `page_rank`: this value, equal to `0` by default, can be set from the
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`start_urls` object. It can be customized in order to boost or restrain some
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records depending on **their webpage's URL**. It will need to match a **specific
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regular expression pattern**.
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**Example:**
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```json
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{
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"index_name": "example",
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"start_urls": [
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{
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"url": "http://example.com/docs/api/v1\\.[0-9]",
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"page_rank": 1
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}
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]
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}
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```
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2. `level`: this value depends on the `level` of the record. A record's level is
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its **deepest level attribute not null**. `text` records have a weight of 0.
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3. `position`: This value is the position of the matching element within every
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picked up element along the original HTML flow. The **sooner** the record appears,
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the **higher** it will be ranked.
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You can override the way these elements are impacting the search thanks to `custom_settings`.
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**Example:**
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```json
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"custom_settings": {
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"customRanking": [
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"asc(weight.position)",
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"desc(weight.page_rank)",
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"desc(weight.level)"
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]
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}
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``` |