# Main site search result ordering

**URL:** <http://forum.companieshouse.gov.uk/t/main-site-search-result-ordering/1026>\
**Category:** Information\
**Created:** [March 9, 2017, 5:34pm UTC](http://forum.companieshouse.gov.uk/t/main-site-search-result-ordering/1026 "2017-03-09T17:34:34Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![andrey\_koval](http://forum.companieshouse.gov.uk/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/b782af/32.png) [@andrey\_koval](http://forum.companieshouse.gov.uk/u/andrey_koval)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2017, 5:34pm UTC](http://forum.companieshouse.gov.uk/t/main-site-search-result-ordering/1026/1 "2017-03-09T17:34:34Z")

</div>

Hi people thnx for your good api, what is algoritm of ordering search results on your main site

> **[Companies House](https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/search/companies?q=ELLIOTT&page=3)**

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![MArkWilliams](http://forum.companieshouse.gov.uk/user_avatar/forum.companieshouse.gov.uk/markwilliams/32/194_2.png) [@MArkWilliams](http://forum.companieshouse.gov.uk/u/MArkWilliams)\
**Post date:** [March 13, 2017, 3:04pm UTC](http://forum.companieshouse.gov.uk/t/main-site-search-result-ordering/1026/2 "2017-03-13T15:04:17Z")

</div>

The search is not exactly ‘ordered’, as it is not a simple search.  
The information in the following post should answer your questions:-

> [@For search/companies query - what does it search and how](http://forum.aws.chdev.org/t/for-search-companies-query-what-does-it-search-and-how/1007):
>
> I’m just wondering what the APS searches with the q value. I am using “aspiration group” as a test search. There are 70819 results. Looking at the results I can see it looks into title and snippets but I do not know what else. I randomly picked a company number (05528305) and it returned a single result, but I don’t know if the result of one row is only because that number wasn’t used in any of the fields the q value is searched in. Finally I used the company number and some text (05528305 as…

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![ramanram0029](http://forum.companieshouse.gov.uk/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@ramanram0029](http://forum.companieshouse.gov.uk/u/ramanram0029)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2017, 10:47am UTC](http://forum.companieshouse.gov.uk/t/main-site-search-result-ordering/1026/3 "2017-03-23T10:47:37Z")

</div>

may be problem with your search keyword. try another word searching. or it can also happen by the problem of site. am Raman ram. Am a laundry service man. Now am working as part of one of famous laundry service in India. [laundry service in indirapuram](https://www.laundrybucket.co.in/laundry-service)