Vector Candidate Pool sets how many pages a search brings in before they are ranked: up to that many of the pages closest in meaning to what the visitor typed, and up to that many of the best word matches.
- Default: 500.
- Range: from 10 to 1,000, in steps of 10.
Bigger or smaller
- Bigger: more pages are considered. Broader results, a little slower.
- Smaller: faster, and fewer pages can appear in the results.
Filters the visitor picks, such as a language or a date, are applied first, so the pool fills with pages that pass them.
A page found only by meaning also has to be nearly as close as the best meaning match to stay in the results, so a bigger pool does not fill the list with pages that are far from the search.
Which pages from the pool can appear is set by Search Mode.
Change it
- Open Search Tuning in the settings of your index.
- Drag the Vector Candidate Pool slider. The value shows on the right and is saved as you move.
- To go back to 500, click Reset next to the slider.
The slider appears when your index can use AI search.