Re: Limit total found results

2011-09-04 Thread John
Hi Erick, Hence my second question. Is there anything else I can do? Lev On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 3:23 AM, Erick Erickson wrote: > First question is whether you want to. There are ways to stop the > search, but how do you know that the last document of your 200K > isn't the most relevant? There's

Re: Limit total found results

2011-09-03 Thread Erick Erickson
First question is whether you want to. There are ways to stop the search, but how do you know that the last document of your 200K isn't the most relevant? There's no way I know to determine that without examining all the docs. Best Erick On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 11:20 AM, John wrote: > Hi, > > In

Limit total found results

2011-09-02 Thread John
Hi, In my search application, I sometimes get more than 200k matches for a specific query. Although I only present the first 20, I still run over the entire 200k because I use my own Similarity function. Is there a way to make this search smarter? I thought limiting the total possible matches to