The price clause is a little trickier. The user’s preferred price is anything up to £100, but this example sets the origin to £50. Prices can’t be negative, but the lower they are, the better. Really, any price between £0 and £100 should be considered optimal.

If we were to set the origin to £100, then prices below £100 would receive a lower score. Instead, we set both the origin and the offset to £50. That way, the score decays only for any prices above £100 (origin + offset).

The weight parameter can be used to increase or decrease the contribution of individual clauses. The weight, which defaults to 1.0, is multiplied by the score from each clause before the scores are combined with the specified score_mode.