Okay, so what if I added a "rating" field users could update from like 1-5, and then did something like this:
/solr/select?indent=on&debugQuery=on&rows=99&q=body:+something AND type:I _val_:product(score, rating); _val_ desc, id desc Would that sort the resultset by the product of the score and the rating? -Reece On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 2:47 PM, Reece <liquidp...@gmail.com> wrote: > Re-indexing so much would be a pretty big pain. I do have a unique > ID for each document though that I use for updating them every day as > they change. > > -Reece > > > > On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 2:40 PM, Erick Erickson <erickerick...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> This may not be practical, as it would involve re-indexing >> all your documents periodically, but here goes anyway... >> >> You could think about *index-time* boosts. Somewhere >> you keep a record of the recommendations, then re-index >> your corpus adding some suitable boost to each field in >> your document based upon those recommendations. >> >> From an old post on the Lucene list by Hoss: >> >> <<<...index time field boosts are a way to express things >> like "this documents title is worth twice as much as the title >> of most documents...">>> >> >> Which seems like what you're after. >> >> But it may not be practical to re-index your corpus, >> and the other interesting issue would be how you keep >> track of documents since the Lucene doc ID is probably >> useless, you'd have to have your own unique, persistent >> field. >> >> Best >> Erick >> >> On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 2:27 PM, Reece <liquidp...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Hmm, I already boost certain fields, but from what I know about it you >>> would need to know the boost value ahead of time which is not possible >>> as it would be a different boost for each document depending on how it >>> was rated.. >>> >>> I did think of one thing though. If I had a field that had a value of >>> 1-5 for each document, and took that and used it to then add a boost >>> to the fields I was actually searching on (or the final score) that >>> would probably work, is that possible? >>> >>> -Reece >>> >>> >>> >>> On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 1:51 PM, Matthew Runo <mr...@zappos.com> wrote: >>> > You could use a boost function to gently boost up items which were marked >>> as >>> > more popular. >>> > >>> > You would send the function query in the "bf" parameter with your query, >>> and >>> > you can find out more about syntax here: >>> > http://wiki.apache.org/solr/FunctionQuery >>> > >>> > Thanks for your time! >>> > >>> > Matthew Runo >>> > Software Engineer, Zappos.com >>> > mr...@zappos.com - 702-943-7833 >>> > >>> > On Jan 29, 2009, at 10:27 AM, Reece wrote: >>> > >>> >> Currently I'm using SOLR 1.2 to index a few million documents. It's >>> >> been requested that a way for users to rate the documents be done so >>> >> that something rated higher would show up higher in search results and >>> >> vice verse. >>> >> >>> >> I've been thinking about it, but can't come up with a good way to do >>> >> this and still have the "best match" ranking of the results according >>> >> to search terms entered by the users. >>> >> >>> >> I was hoping someone had done something similar or would have some >>> >> insight on it. >>> >> >>> >> Thanks in advance! >>> >> >>> >> -Reece >>> >> >>> > >>> > >>> >> >
