Marketplace-Research OpenSearch Function Scoring Best Practices

A reference distillation of research-backed algorithms for ranking in two-sided marketplaces (Airbnb, Uber Eats, DoorDash, Etsy, eBay, Booking.com) implemented on OpenSearch or Elasticsearch. Contains 56 rules across 9 categories, prioritised by cascade effect in the search ranking pipeline. Each rule explains the WHY (the cascade or the bias it corrects), shows incorrect-vs-correct code (OpenSearch JSON queries, Painless scripts, Python pre-processing, evaluation methodology), and links to the canonical source — KDD/SIGIR/WSDM papers, the OpenSearch documentation, and the engineering blogs of the marketplaces that proved these patterns at scale.

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