In similar question when asking, is it possible to give more weight to a word when the question title is shorter

Question

For example, let's say you are asking something about word1. Question A and B both have word1 in their title but question A has only 2 words and question B has 6, I'd like Question A to have a better score.

Answer 1

The short answer is... not easily at all. You can see the query that Q2A uses to find related posts in function qa_db_related_qs_selectspec(...) in qa-db-selects.php - there's no straightforward way to modify this query to take account of the number of words in the title of each potentially related post, though no doubt it could be done, with a little more nesting of subqueries.

Comments

Well... I'll dig! :) Just to specify ) I'm looking to modify the questions that are proposed when you ask a question, which use the search methode. Thanks!