Thread: How are Search results ordered?

How are Search results ordered?

Can anyone help me understand how the Search Results are ordered by default? It does seem to use 'rating' as the default order, presumably with higher rated listings at the top, however, how is the 'rating' worked out, and how about listings that don't have any ratings or reviews at all - how does Vantage/Wordpress decide what order to list them in. It doesn't seem to change randomly, so there must be something that Wordpress/Vantage is looking at to help it decide.