Re: boosting, both query time and other

2010-12-12 Thread Erick Erickson
Basically that's unanswerable, you have to look at trying various choices with your corpus. Take a look at the defaults in the dismax request handler in the example schema for a place to start... And do be aware that the "correct" values may change as your corpus acquires more data. I'm not sure w

boosting, both query time and other

2010-12-12 Thread Dennis Gearon
So, our main search results has some very common fields, 'title' 'tags' 'description' What kind of boosting has everybody been using that makes them and their customers happy with these kind of fields? What are the pros and cons of query time boosting versus configured boosting? Dennis Gearon