Two Solr Announcements: CNET Product Search and DisMax

I've got two related announcements to make, which I think are pretty cool... The first is that the Search result pages for CNET Shopper.com are now powered by Solr. You may be thinking "Didn't he announce that last year?" ... not quite. CNET's faceted product listing pages for browsing products

facet id values for indexed documents

I have a database of products to search. I plan to have a design with categories/facet groups/facets. Similar to this: