I there i know typesense is an search engine, but my client is also using it as filter for frontend items, but the result are always the same, does typesense have random sort?

👋 Can you please elaborate what you mean by "result are always the same"? I don't follow you.

Hi @Kishore Nallan, is using the api call to get results from typesense, but the order of the itens is always the same, i would like to find out if we can add random sort.

So a wildcard query is made with just filters?

yep

Okay, in that case, the documents are sorted by their internal IDs (which are ascending and auto incrementing in nature). There is no way to sort randomly, because I have never seen a use case where a random order helps 🙂

im using right now with another seach engine, but moving to typesense after the tests are concluded..

One way to "generate" randomness if you really want it. But it's one giant hack: 1. Add a geo field with a random value. 2. During sort_by pass a random geo point as reference value. This would sort results on "distance" from the reference point, but since the geo point is random, the computed distance will always change!

Humm nice hack 😄

If pagination isn't involved, you can always sort the results randomly client-side

That could be a trick..