I did find out how to set the sorting of search results:

the order you define your searchfiels is the sorting you'll get

 searchFields="nodeName, sortOrderMain, metaTitle, metaDescription, metaKeywords, bodyText, description, productName, buzzWord"

unless you modify the \Views\MacroPartials\ezSearch.cshtml source for example code line:

var searchResults = model.PagedResults.OrderByDescending(r => r.Fields["sortOrderMain"]); 

But the serachresults are inconsistently I have a searchresult in childpages in 4 different mothernodes but they do not sort accordingly to all 4 of the results. They sort in pair 2 and 2 but all 4 items are not sorted correct :(

here is somebodyelse with the same problem sorting out of order:

http://our.umbraco.org/forum/developers/api-questions/38846-Definitive-way-to-Sort-Examine-Search-Results

anybody got a clue?

What I want to do with sorting is very much the same as ranking content. This code in the file  ezSearch.cshtml does some ranking so it says

       // Rank content based on positon of search terms in fields

        for (var i = 0; i < model.SearchFields.Count; i++)

        {

            foreach (var term in model.SearchTerms)

            {

                query.AppendFormat("{0}:{1}*^{2} ", model.SearchFields[i], term, model.SearchFields.Count - i);

            }

        }

but I dont grasp the way this code is doing the ranking. Can anyone explain how the ranking is done there?

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