Related terms are words or phrases that the search engine has determined are related to the term used in the query.
For example, a full-text search on "Michael Jackson" in a sample database returned these related terms:
<relatedTerms>
<RelatedTerm id="kmichael%20jackson/6957395191307159684"
title="Michael Jackson" occurrences="27" state="Displayed" />
<RelatedTerm id="kassociated%20press/10288515699233481828"
title="Associated Press" occurrences="12" state="Displayed" />
<RelatedTerm id="kfile%20photo/8811260770900686246"
title="File photo" occurrences="8" state="Displayed" />
<RelatedTerm id="kking%20of%20pop/8101817844199156608"
title="King of Pop" occurrences="6" state="Displayed" />
<RelatedTerm id="knew%20york%20yankees/4546365886794898300"
title="New York Yankees" occurrences="6" state="Displayed" />
<RelatedTerm id="kstephen%20jackson/922012106000805546"
title="Stephen Jackson" occurrences="5" state="Displayed" />
<RelatedTerm id="ksony%20pictures/10288515392292325938"
title="Sony Pictures" occurrences="5" state="Displayed" />
<RelatedTerm id="kreggie%20jackson/12365751519951115394"
title="Reggie Jackson" occurrences="4" state="Displayed" />
<RelatedTerm id="kmatt%20sayles/10288585430372910124"
title="Matt Sayles" occurrences="4" state="Displayed" />
<RelatedTerm id="kjoel%20ryan/1452018387358561194"
title="Joel Ryan" occurrences="4" state="Displayed" />
</relatedTerms>
Attribute values found in the RelatedTerm node:
id |
The refinementId for the related term, used to include or exclude results |
title |
name of the related term |
occurrences |
number of results that contain this term |
state |
display status, options are: Displayed, Excluded or Refined Displayed: results include objects where this term occurs Refined: results include ONLY objects where this term occurs Excluded: objects containing this term are excluded from the results |