I have a couple of questions from some online newspaper folks who are interested in Solr and are trying to understand how and why it came to be. I think inherent in these questions is the underlying theme I hear all the time and that is "Solr is not a content management system. It's a search engine."
What I really wonder about CNet is how they manage their content and how Solr fits into their overall architecture -- is it an add-on? a purpose-built hammer to handle a specific problem they were having? was it something they "wanted" ... or instead something they needed to do, despite preferring something else? Another question asked of me was "Will Solr ever connect with datasources directly?" Thanks in advance for any feedback I can supply the folks. Tim On 9/10/06, Chris Hostetter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: > > What is "faceted browsing"? Maybe an example of a site interface Whoops! ... sorry about that, i tend to get ahead of my self. The examples Erik pointed out are very representative, but there are more subtle ways faceted searching can come into play -- for example, if you look at these two search results... http://shopper-search.cnet.com/search?q=gta http://shopper-search.cnet.com/search?q=ipod ...the categories in the left nav change based on what you search on, because we treat "category" as a facet, and the individual categories as possible "constraints" ... we don't show the user the exact count of how many products match in each category but we use that information to determine the order of the categories (or wether we should include a category in the list at all) : website and this would be a great way to break out content. Kind of greys : the lines between what is search and what is browsing categories, which is a : great thing actually. Thanks for the help. Even without facets, "browsing" a set of documents is just a search for "all" docuemnts (or depending on who you talk to: "searching" is just browsing with a special user entered constraint on the "text" facet) -Hoss
