Cross-product search weights current product too heavily, burying relevant results from other products

[kevmok]

Which Fern component?

Fern Docs

How important is this?

P1 - High (Strongly needed)

What's the feature?

• Feature: When settings.default-search-filters is set to false, cross-product search should rank results primarily by query relevance — not heavily weight the current product's content.
• Why: If a user is on Product A and searches for something that lives in Product B, they get flooded with less-relevant Product A results and have to scroll to find what they're actually looking for. This makes cross-product search ineffective for multi-product sites.
• How: Reduce or make configurable the Algolia ranking boost applied to the current product context. Results should surface the most relevant content first regardless of which product the user is currently viewing.
  Example: On a site with 4 products, searching "access software" while on Product A returns Product A pages like "access software insights" first — even though the user is looking for the Product B docs page on access software. The user has to scroll past all Product A results to find it.

Any alternatives?

• Set settings.default-search-filters: false — enables cross-product results but they're still heavily weighted toward the current product
• Manually navigate to the target product first, then search — defeats the purpose of cross-product search

Are you interested in contributing this feature?

No