What is default ordering schema in online search?

[adamduus]

Just checking... Are results in the online search default listed by "relevance", as deemed by a Bookends algorithm? Or something else?

[Jon]

No, they are listed in the order received from the online source, which usually has its own method for ranking results.

Jon
Sonny Software

[adamduus]

Thanks Jon.

FWIW to other readers, Wikipedia says

Research has shown that Google Scholar puts high weight especially on citation counts[21] and words included in a document's title.[22] As a consequence, the first search results are often highly cited articles.