I'll add my vote that reading the book will really expand your understanding of search and "Relevance".
If you're working in the Search space, this book is really worth your time! On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 2:59 PM, MaryJo Sminkey <mjsmin...@gmail.com> wrote: > > For someone familiar with Solr, will it be an issue to run those examples > > in a Solr instance instead ? > > > > You can't run ES code on Solr, and the syntax is quite different, so you do > have to figure out how to convert it yourself and it's not always very > obvious. There is an appendix that covers the differences in how you would > do the same searches/etc in Solr chapter by chapter but it's certainly not > a comprehensive comparison of the code examples, I did notice for instance > since I'm working on synonyms right now that it didn't have any mention of > the issues on Solr with multi-term synonyms or even how to do synonyms on > Solr. I definitely would have loved to get a copy of the book that was more > specific to Solr but I still would recommend it for the material that it > does have and how to think about relevancy and work to improve your > results. But it's definitely more geared for intermediate to advanced users > that already have a good handle on all the elements of Solr and how to > write code for them. > > HTH > > MJ > > > > Sent with MailTrack > < > https://mailtrack.io/install?source=signature&lang=en&referral=mjsmin...@gmail.com&idSignature=22 > > >
