We use MW 1.5.6 as our Intranet and we are puzzled how a full text search for a word (one more than 4 characters) returns its results? We think we want to change the results order.

Questions: 1. Why are search results not sorted by article title? How are they sorted? 2. If a priority is used for returned results, how does the search function determine or assign the priority to the article? 3. What are the fields displayed in search results? What are the numbers under each title? Is it the record line number? 4. Finally, can we configure or manipulate our displayed search results? Maybe some localsettings.php setting?

Problem example: We searched for the word "character", clicked the Search button and the following results displayed for article matches:

1. TN https://wiki.abistech.us/index.php/TN_1018_Character_Encodings_in_HTML-JSP_ and_Servlets 1018 Character Encodings in HTML-JSP and Servlets (3865 bytes) 5: =Character Encondings for i18n Content=

2. TR https://wiki.abistech.us/index.php/TR_Japanese_Character_Encoding_Issues Japanese Character Encoding Issues (2822 bytes) 35: ... incoming data. Browsers have many ways to handle character encodings with meta tags and form attributes.

3. Japanese https://wiki.abistech.us/index.php/Japanese_Character_Encoding_Test_Framewo rk Character Encoding Test Framework (3189 bytes) 36: ..., please refer to the Technical Report [[Japanese Character Encoding Issues]]. 44: ...it is uncertain how Java handles extended Unicode characters beyond FFFF. But this range is will beyond what ...

4. Character https://wiki.abistech.us/index.php/Character_Conversion Conversion (1110 bytes)