We add around 10,000 docs during week days and 5,000 during weekends. On 8/12/07, Pieter Berkel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Do you consistently add 10,000 documents to your index every day or does > the > number of new documents added per day vary? > > > On 11/08/07, climbingrose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I'm having the date boosting function as well. I'm using this function: > > F = recip(rord(creationDate),1,1000,1000)^10. However, since I have > around > > 10,000 of documents added in one day, rord(createDate) returns very > > different values for the same createDate. For example, the last document > > added with have rord(createdDate) =1 while the last document added will > > have > > rord(createdDate) = 10,000. When createDate > 10,000, value of F is > > approaching 0. Therefore, the boost query doesn't make any difference > > between the the last document added today and the document added 10 days > > ago. Now if I replace 1000 in F with a large number, say 100000, the > > boost > > function suddenly gives the last few documents enormous boost and make > > the > > other query scores irrelevant. > > > > So in my case (and many others' I believe), the "true" date value would > be > > more appropriate. I'm thinking along the same line of adding timestamp. > It > > wouldn't add much overhead this way, would it? > > >
-- Regards, Cuong Hoang
