Explain rank in Sharepoint 2013 Search

Default ranking model in Sharepoint 2013 is completely different from what we’ve seen in FS4SP and is definitely a step forward comparing to SP2010. In a nutshell it uses multiple features (to take into account query terms, it’s proximity; document click-through, authority, anchor text, url depth etc ) which are mixed with help of neural network as a final step. Details can be found in patent claim http://www.google.com/patents/US8296292.

Hopefully there’s a way to bring more light into this black magic. I’ve modified default Display Template and added “Explain Rank” link to each item. This link redirects user to ExplainRank page which hosted under {search_center_url}/_layouts/15/ folder.

I used

• d=ctx.CurrentItem.Path
• q=ctx.DataProvider.$2_3.k  (have found this hidden property using trial & error method)
• another option is to extract value for q= from QueryText from ctx.ListData.Properties.SerializedQuery which value was<Query Culture=”en-US” EnableStemming=”True” EnablePhonetic=”False” EnableNicknames=”False” IgnoreAllNoiseQuery=”True” SummaryLength=”180″ MaxSnippetLength=”180″ DesiredSnippetLength=”90″ KeywordInclusion=”0″ QueryText=”star wars” QueryTemplate=”{searchboxquery}” TrimDuplicates=”True”…