[search] Results that are unrelated to the query are returned

[osamum]

Type of issue

Code doesn't work

Description

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When I run a vector search using the code below, the results returned are unrelated to the query.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/javascript/api/overview/azure/search-documents-readme?view=azure-node-latest#querying-with-vectors

For example, even if you search for a string of completely meaningless characters, you will still get results.
The score in result is always 1 for both correct and irrelevant keywords, and rerankerScore is always undefined.
How can I use this library to retrieve only results that are relevant to the content of user query?

Page URL

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/javascript/api/overview/azure/search-documents-readme?view=azure-node-latest#querying-with-vectors

Content source URL

https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/azure-docs-sdk-node/blob/main/docs-ref-services/latest/search-documents-readme.md

Document Version Independent Id

bbdda1cc-8bcc-f451-adc3-336cdc222621

Article author

@azure-sdk

Metadata

• ID: bc0fe95b-a94f-c1e7-5d15-668e4f974b97
• Service: search

[github-actions]

Thanks for the feedback! We are routing this to the appropriate team for follow-up. cc @bleroy @MarkHeff @miwelsh @tjacobhi.

[osamum]

I think the cause of this problem is that "*" is specified as the first argument to the searchClient.search method.
Specifically, the following part:

const searchResults = await searchClient.search("*", {

If you replace this "*" with the keyword you want to use in your query, the score value will change correctly.
In any case, I don't know what part this searchResults returns from the Azure AI Search response, but I would be happy to be able to obtain the contents of @search.answers[] from Azure AI Search.

[jeremymeng]

@osamum thank you for the report! We will take a look then get back to you.