Re: Ideas on how to implement "sponsored results"

2008-06-04 Thread Alexander Ramos Jardim
Cuong, I think you will need some manipulation beyond solr queries. You should separate the results by your site criteria after retrieving them. After that, you could cache the results on your application and randomize the lists every time you render the a page. I don't know if solr has collapsin

Re: Ideas on how to implement "sponsored results"

2008-06-03 Thread climbingrose
Hi Alexander, Thanks for your suggestion. I think my problem is a bit different from yours. We don't have any sponsored words but we have to retrieve sponsored results directly from the index. This is because a site can have 60,000 products which is hard to insert/update keywords. I can live with

Re: Ideas on how to implement "sponsored results"

2008-06-03 Thread Alexander Ramos Jardim
Cuong, I have implemented sponsored words for a client. I don't know if my working can help you but I will expose it and let you decide. I have an index containing products entries that I created a field called sponsored words. What I do is to boost this field , so when these words are matched in

Ideas on how to implement "sponsored results"

2008-06-03 Thread climbingrose
Hi all, I'm trying to implement "sponsored results" in Solr search results similar to that of Google. We index products from various sites and would like to allow certain sites to promote their products. My approach is to query a slave instance to get sponsored results for user queries in addition