Query Elevation Arrives: Pin, Exclude and Reorder Results From the Search UI, With Global Rules and a Tabbed Query Analytics App

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Query Elevation is here. You can pin or exclude specific search results directly from the Search UI, per query or across every query, and manage the resulting rules in a redesigned analytics application.

01 Pin and exclude from the Search UI

Enable elevation in your index settings, then use the elevation toolbar on any search result to pin it to the top or hide it entirely. Pin and exclude work per-query, for one specific search term, or globally, for all searches. Pinned results can be reordered by drag-and-drop.

It is useful for promoting important pages, burying outdated content, or curating results for key queries.

Elevation toolbar on any search result Pin Exclude Choosing one clears the other for that document Per query applies to one search term only Global: Pin All / Exclude All applies to every query
Every elevation rule is either scoped to a single query or applied globally, and pin and exclude cannot both hold for the same document.

02 Global rules: Pin All and Exclude All

The new "Pin All" and "Exclude All" buttons let you pin or exclude a result across every search query, not just the one you are looking at. A globally pinned page always appears at the top; a globally excluded page never shows up in results, regardless of what the user searches for.

03 Query Analytics & Tools

The former Query Statistics page has been completely redesigned into a clean tabbed application. Overview, Queries and Elevation Rules each live in their own tab with lazy AJAX loading.

Elevation rules now show full document details — title, description and URL — instead of raw Solr IDs, with accordion-style collapsible query groups and a regex search to instantly find any elevated document across all rules.

04 Fixes and toolbar polish

  • Multiple pinned documents per query. A critical bug meant that pinning several documents to the same query only applied the last one — Solr was receiving the document IDs in the wrong format. All pinned results now appear at the top in the order you set them.
  • Pin and exclude are mutually exclusive. Elevation actions are now mutually exclusive per document: clicking Pin on an excluded result removes the exclude first, and vice versa. No more stale conflicting rules.
  • Clearer toolbar buttons. The Pin, Exclude and Exclude All buttons on the search elevation toolbar are now high-contrast and colour-coded — orange for Pin, red for Exclude — so they read clearly as interactive controls.
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