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				<title>Criteria for scoring /search results?</title>
				<description><![CDATA[ Hi, can anyone shed any light on how the results of a /search are scored?  I've been doing some experimentation and am finding some confusing results.  For example, here is a search for "Bennington" using cities1000:

http://api.geonames.org/search?username=demo&style=full&fcode=ADM1&fcode=ADM1H&fcode=PPL&fcode=PPLA&fcode=PPLA2&fcode=PPLA3&fcode=PPLA4&fcode=PPLC&fcode=PPLCH&name=Bennington&type=xml&lang=en&maxRows=10&cities=cities1000

The results are:
<li> A PPL called "Long Bennington" in the UK, population 1884
<li> A PPL called "Bennington" in Nebraska USA, population 1458
<li> A PPL called "North Bennington" in Vermont USA, population 1643
<li> A PPL called "Bennington" in Vermont USA, population 9074

I would have assumed that an exact match with a higher population (the last one in the list) would score better.  What dictates this ordering?


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				<title>Re:Criteria for scoring /search results?</title>
				<description><![CDATA[ Sorry to reply to my own post, but is this forum dead?  It took over two weeks for my question to get moderator-approved, and it seems like very few questions are being answered.  Should I be looking elsewhere for geonames technical discussion?
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				<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 24 May 2015 15:07:06]]> GMT</pubDate>
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