FREETEXTTABLE always has a rank of 0

Question

I\'m using SQLServer 2008 and if I perform the following query:

SELECT 
  *
FROM
  FREETEXTTABLE(SomeTable, Name, \'a name that I know exists\')

Answer 1

The rank is relative to the other results returned in the query and is therefore only useful for sorting on relevance from the returned values. There is detailed information on the ranking method.