Term Coercion

Note

Indexing Service is no longer supported as of Windows XP and is unavailable for use as of Windows 8. Instead, use Windows Search for client side search and Microsoft Search Server Express for server side search.

 

Term coercion allows a particular clause to force documents matching that clause to appear higher in the results ranking. Term coercion is similar to numeric input-term weighting, but it has been called out as a separate operator to allow search engines to implement coercion differently than input-term weighting. The implementation and exact behavior of coercion is left up to the query engine.

To coerce a clause in the query, specify the coerce tag as follows.

{coerce} query-term

Note

The coercion tag is a unary operator which works on the term to the right of the tag. No short-form representation is available and no close tag is specified or required.