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Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 14:27:43 -0500
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Subject: Re: Question about rating documents
From: Reece <liquidpele@gmail.com>
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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 <mruno@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
> 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
>>
>
>