If simply getting random results (matching your query) from Solr is your requirement, then a dynamic RandomSortField is what you need. Details here - http://lucene.apache.org/solr/api/org/apache/solr/schema/RandomSortField.html
Cheers Avlesh On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 6:54 AM, yaymicro_bjorn <oddbjorn.sjog...@gmail.com>wrote: > > Hi > > I'm responsible for the search engine at yaymicro.com. yaymicro.com is a > microstock agency (sells images). We are using the excellent solr search > engine, but I have a problem with series of similar images showing up. I'll > try to explain: > > A search for dog for example > > http://yaymicro.com/search.action?search.search=dog&x=0&y=0&search.first=true > > very often results in variations of the images of the same motive close to > each other. This is logical, but unwanted behaviour, since we would love to > show our customers more variations in search result. > > So my question is quite simple, is there a way to configure solr to put > some > "randomness" in the search result? To shuffle the result, not completly, > but > "a bit" to avoid such series of similar images. > > Any respons would be highly appreciated > > Bjorn > CTO of YayMicro > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/Shuffling-results-tp23715563p23715563.html > Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > >
