How organic ranking works
Results are ordered by a versioned, approved configuration. Commission is not a ranking factor.
Current weights
- 0.35 relevance — how well the product matches the query and its constraints
- 0.18 price quality — the total delivered price relative to the best in the set. An incomplete price is capped below any complete one
- 0.12 availability confidence
- 0.10 delivery fit
- 0.08 merchant and source reliability
- 0.07 freshness — how recently the price and stock were observed
- 0.06 identity and compatibility confidence
- 0.04 result diversity, so one merchant does not fill the page
Commission is not a ranking factor
This is structural. The ranking code has no commission value in scope, the commercial routing package is not imported, and tests assert both facts.
Explanations
Every result carries the feature vector behind its position and a plain-language explanation.
Sponsored results
There are none today. If introduced later, they will be in a separate labelled lane and will not be described as cheapest or best unless objectively true.
Merchant review
If a result looks wrong, the same decomposition is what we will look at with you.