Just in case you're not following the Community News and Feedback forum, you may have not seen the following post about our search improvements. Here is a link.
very nice! what order are the results listed in?
Through the Community search we are using 3 different search engines. So depending on which tab you are the ordering/sorting options are different:
For the COMMUNITY tab:
In this tab we are using the Community search engine.
You have a drop-down offering you 4 sorting options: Most Relevant / Most Recent / Alphabetical / Highest Rating
For the KB tab:
In this tab we are using the SFDC open KB search which doesn't offer ordering options, unfortunately.
For the SITEWIDE tab:
Here we are using Coveo search engine.
You have 2 possible sorting options: Relevance / Date
