Google Search Appliance Protocol Reference - Manual (Page 39)

Google Search Appliance: Search Protocol Reference Request Format 39
Value Description
E Return the 1000 most relevant results, then sort by metadata. Default.
ED Same as mode E, but also sort dates chronologically. Supported in GSA version
7.2.0.G.230 and later.
S Return the 1000 most relevant results, then sort by metadata, then apply
Advanced Score Reporting, Unification biasing, and filtering.
SD Same as mode S, but also sort dates chronologically. Supported in GSA version
7.2.0.G.230 and later.
Value Description
any ISO 639-1 code A 2-character language code indicating the language rules to use to sort. en is
the default.
Value Description
D Do not consider case when sorting. Default.
U Sort uppercase version of a letter before the lowercase version of that letter.
Note that this does not sort all uppercase characters before all lowercase
characters.
L Sort lowercase version of a letter before the uppercase version of that letter.
Value Description
D Numeric sorting is disabled, so 123 comes before 2 because 1 is less than 2.
Default. The order is ascending (the default).
Examples:
123
2
34
ABC123XYZ
ABC2XYZ
ABC34XYZ
Y Numeric sorting is enabled, so 2 comes before 123 because 2 is less than 123.
This only sorts positive integers, but does classify numbers inside longer
alphanumeric strings. So ABC2XYZ will come before ABC123XYZ.
Examples:
2
34
123
ABC2XYZ
ABC34XYZ
ABC123XYZ