We had a similar feature in the Ultraseek search engine. One of our customers was a magazine publisher, and they wanted the best hit from each magazine on the first page.
I expect that field collapsing would work for this. wunder Walter Underwood wun...@wunderwood.org http://observer.wunderwood.org/ (my blog) > On Nov 28, 2016, at 4:19 PM, Derek Poh <d...@globalsources.com> wrote: > > Alex > > Hope I understand what you meant by positive business requirements. > With a few supplier's products dominating the first page of a search result, > the sales will not be able to convince prospectiveor existing clients to sign > up. > They would like the results tofeature other supplier's products as well. > To the extreme case, they were thinking of displaying the results tobe in > such order > Supplier A product > Supplier B product > Supplier C product > Supplier A product > Supplier B product > Supplier C product > ... > > Theyare alright with implementing this logic tothe first page only > andsubsequent pages will be as per current logic if it is not possible to > implement it to the entire search result. > > Will take a lookat Collapse and Expandto seeif it can help. > > On 11/28/2016 6:04 PM, Alexandre Rafalovitch wrote: >> You have described your _negative_ business requirements, but not the >> _positive_ ones. So, it is hard to see what they want to happen. It is >> easy enough to promote or demote a particular filter matches. But you >> want to partially limit them. On a first page? What about on the >> second? >> >> I suspect you would have to have a slightly different interface to do >> this effectively. And, most likely, using Collapse and Expand: >> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/solr/Collapse+and+Expand+Results >> . >> >> Regards, >> Alex. >> ---- >> http://www.solr-start.com/ - Resources for Solr users, new and experienced >> >> >> On 28 November 2016 at 20:09, Derek Poh <d...@globalsources.com> wrote: >>> Hi >>> >>> We have a business requirement to breakupa supplier's products from >>> dominating search resultso as to allow othersuppliers' products in the >>> search result to have exposure. >>> Business users are open to implementing this for the first page of the >>> search resultif it is not possible to apply tothe entire search result. >>> >>> From the sample keywords users have provided, I also discovered thatmost of >>> the time a supplier's products that are listed consecutively in the result >>> all have the same score. >>> >>> Any advice/suggestions on how I cando it? >>> >>> Please let me know if more information is require. Thank you. >>> >>> Derek >>> >>> ---------------------- >>> CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE >>> This e-mail (including any attachments) may contain confidential and/or >>> privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient or have >>> received this e-mail in error, please inform the sender immediately and >>> delete this e-mail (including any attachments) from your computer, and you >>> must not use, disclose to anyone else or copy this e-mail (including any >>> attachments), whether in whole or in part. >>> This e-mail and any reply to it may be monitored for security, legal, >>> regulatory compliance and/or other appropriate reasons. >> > > > ---------------------- > CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE > This e-mail (including any attachments) may contain confidential and/or > privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient or have > received this e-mail in error, please inform the sender immediately and > delete this e-mail (including any attachments) from your computer, and you > must not use, disclose to anyone else or copy this e-mail (including any > attachments), whether in whole or in part. > This e-mail and any reply to it may be monitored for security, legal, > regulatory compliance and/or other appropriate reasons.
