I'm not aware of any difference. The proper name is "result biasing".
> Can i display search results up or down using scoring bias settings
> when the content coming from another appliance(secondary GSA) ?
You can specify biasing by URL patterns or collections, and you can
have your secondary GSA serve content with specific collections or URL
patterns, so yes.
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