diff --git a/server/src/main/java/org/eclipse/openvsx/search/ElasticSearchService.java b/server/src/main/java/org/eclipse/openvsx/search/ElasticSearchService.java
index e9217fe76..97757232d 100644
--- a/server/src/main/java/org/eclipse/openvsx/search/ElasticSearchService.java
+++ b/server/src/main/java/org/eclipse/openvsx/search/ElasticSearchService.java
@@ -369,10 +369,8 @@ private void sortResults(NativeQueryBuilder queryBuilder, String sortOrder, Stri
         if(type == null) {
             throw new ErrorResultException("sortBy parameter must be 'relevance', 'timestamp', 'averageRating' or 'downloadCount'.");
         }
-        if ("relevance".equals(sortBy)) {
-            queryBuilder.withSort(builder -> builder.score(scoreSort -> scoreSort.order(order)));
-        }
 
+        queryBuilder.withSort(builder -> builder.score(scoreSort -> scoreSort.order(order)));
         queryBuilder.withSort(builder -> builder.field(fieldSort -> fieldSort.field(sortBy).unmappedType(type).order(order)));
     }