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Merging Federated Search Results in Typesense

TLDR Michael asked how to merge federated search results. Jason explained it should be done on the client-side, using the text match score.

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Michael

11:49 AM

Is there a simple way to merge the resuts of a federated search, rather than receiving them as separate objects?

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Jason

03:48 PM

Not on the Typesense server side. But you can do this on the client-side by aggregating using the text match score inside each hit - they’re comparable across collections

Michael

04:11 PM

perfect. thanks.

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