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Subject: Re: Question about rating documents
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 10:51:28 -0800
References: <f4d60edb0901291027w4e8a11d9g6e1517557689c365@mail.gmail.com>

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
mruno@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
>