how to get most popular results first in elastic-search

Question

I'm learning elastic search, I wanted to ask if there is any way to get most searched results first, like: by altering the documents and updating a value of em with scores, using some kind of formula or something else

thanks community :)

Answer 1

You don't have that out of the box but you can indeed modify a document and increase the number of views when a user clicks on a result then use that field as part of the score (function_score might help for this).