Re: Personalized Boosting

2012-09-19 Thread Chris Hostetter
: Is it possible to let user's define their position in search when location : is queried? Let's say that I am UserA and when you make a search with : Moscow, my default ranking is 258. By clicking a button, something like : "Boost Me!", I would like to see UserA as the first user when search is d

Re: Personalized Boosting

2012-09-19 Thread Erick Erickson
Would boosting (or sorting) by geodist work? See: http://wiki.apache.org/solr/SpatialSearch#geodist_-_The_distance_function Which you can use for a "boost query" as well as sorting. Of course you need to get the lat/lon of your users to make this work, but there are a number of services that can

Re: Personalized Boosting

2012-09-19 Thread Tom Mortimer
I'm still not sure I understand what it is you're trying to do. Index-time or query-time boosts would probably be neater and more predictable than multiple field instances, though. http://wiki.apache.org/solr/UpdateXmlMessages#Optional_attributes_for_.22field.22 http://wiki.apache.org/solr/SolrR

Re: Personalized Boosting

2012-09-18 Thread Tom Mortimer
Hi, Would this do the job? http://wiki.apache.org/solr/QueryElevationComponent Tom On 18 Sep 2012, at 01:36, deniz wrote: > Hello All, > > I have a requirement or a pre=requirement for our search application. > Basically the engine will be on a website with plenty of users and more than > 2