Adjusting Search Ranking to Prioritize Newer Documents

[ram-atea]

Hi! I'm looking to tweak the search ranking so that newer documents receive slightly higher scores than older ones. We have a document database where newer documents are generally more relevant, so we want to prioritize them in the search results.

I already have a date field in the index (stored in datetime format) and would love to hear any suggestions on the best way to implement this.

If anyone has ideas I could try out, I'd really appreciate it! 😊
Thanks in advance!

[iMicknl]

Scoring Profile (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search/index-add-scoring-profiles) can help you here.