Exact match gets override by other biases ?
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	Sep 16 2014, 9:30 PM

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Take:
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch&profile=advanced&search=%22above—then%22%7E0&fulltext=Search&ns8=1&ns9=1&profile=advanced

and:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch&profile=advanced&search=%22above—then%22%7E0&fulltext=Search&ns0=1&ns1=1&ns8=1&ns9=1&profile=advanced

Both look for the same term, but it seems that there is bias on the Content namespace, and that this overrides the exact matching of the search term ?

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The page ranking algorithm is an internal bias.

Most of your mediawiki namespace hits showed up below the last quartile
because of

frequency. The larger those talk-pages the lower their relative frequency.
number of incoming links
position on the page.

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