Re: Document boosting and native ordering of results

2013-08-28 Thread Michael van Rooyen
chindler H.-H.-Meier-Allee 63, D-28213 Bremen http://www.thetaphi.de eMail: u...@thetaphi.de -Original Message- From: Michael van Rooyen [mailto:mich...@loot.co.za] Sent: Monday, August 26, 2013 6:39 PM To: java-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: Re: Document boosting and native ordering of

Re: Document boosting and native ordering of results

2013-08-26 Thread Michael Sokolov
aphi.de eMail: u...@thetaphi.de -Original Message- From: Michael van Rooyen [mailto:mich...@loot.co.za] Sent: Monday, August 26, 2013 6:39 PM To: java-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: Re: Document boosting and native ordering of results Not sure if there are any thoughts on this. It def

RE: Document boosting and native ordering of results

2013-08-26 Thread Uwe Schindler
g > Subject: Re: Document boosting and native ordering of results > > Not sure if there are any thoughts on this. > > It definitely makes sense to assign a rank to each document in the index, so > that all else being equal, documents are returned in order of rank. This is > exact

Re: Document boosting and native ordering of results

2013-08-26 Thread Michael van Rooyen
Not sure if there are any thoughts on this. It definitely makes sense to assign a rank to each document in the index, so that all else being equal, documents are returned in order of rank. This is exactly what the page rank is in Google's index, and Google would be lost without it. This used

Document boosting and native ordering of results

2013-08-20 Thread Michael van Rooyen
Hello. We've just upgraded to 4.3.1 from 2.9.2 and are having a problem with native ordering of search results. We always want documents returned in order of "rank", which for us is a float value that we assign to each document at index time. Rank depends in whether, for example, the item is