Fuse uses an approach called ‘Engine Scoring’ to measure how relevant our search engine is. The basic premise behind this is, that if every time a user performed a search and the content they needed was ranked first in the search results, then we would have a perfectly relevant search engine.
Fuse records every search query and the position of the content the user clicked on for that search. For example, I search for ‘Spring Release 2022’ and click on the 2nd result in the search results.
We measure this interaction at scale (a minimum of 10,000 queries and clicks) to generate an engine score.
The table below shows the number of clicks in each result position on the first page.