>I assumed they would... I think our signals might be crossed w.r.t. >the meaning of pre or post collapsing. Faceting "post collapsing" I >took to mean that the base docset would be restricted to the top "n" >of each category.
In my view, faceting should occur on the full collapsed result set. Ie break down 100 hits to 50 unique ones, then compute facets on those 50 even though you may only return 10 to the user. >circuitcity does it how I would expect... field collapsing does not >effect the facets on the left. >For example, if I search for memory, a facet tells me that there are >70 under "Digital Cameras". If I look down the collapsed results, >"Digital Cameras" only shows the top match, but has a link to "View >all 70 matches". I agree, circuit city is a use case where you want pre-faceting. If you think about site collapsing though I may se that there are 57 documents in my result set of type x, then clicking on type x should show me 57 docs. >15 documents displayed to the user, or 15 total documents that matched >the query? >If the latter, I don't see how you could get greater than 15 for any >facet count. If I see that there are 15 of type x and click on it then 'total result found' on the next page should say 15, not any higher. -Yonik
