Good points Grant. I'm envisioning my front end working so that a user would never be able to search across all the verticals at once.
EVERY query would inject "vertical:jobs" or "vertical:news" or "vertical:Autos", etc.. etc... This may detrimentally affect my faceted results sets so I'll have to think about this more. Wouldn't this approach overcome my relevancy and scoring issues? On 11/5/07, Grant Ingersoll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > One reason to consider separate indexes is in terms of relevance. Do > you want content from classifieds effecting the rankings of your news > searches? May not be an issue for you depending on your term > distributions, but might be something to consider. As you suspect, > though, having multiple indexes will require more management of the > various instances. Perhaps you can logically group things to only > have a couple of indexes? For instance, maybe home, auto, classifieds > are similar in content and structure and news and community-generated > content are similar? > > -Grant > > On Nov 5, 2007, at 9:34 AM, Tim Archambault wrote: > > > Typical newspaper site with: news, jobs, homes, autos, classifieds, > > community-generated content, guestimate of .5 million documents > > > > Do I really need to create a different solr index for each vertical? > > How > > ineffecient is it to add a few additional fields for each content > > type? > > > > Thinking of having a string field name "vertical" that would be used > > to > > segment by verticals above. > > > > My intuition is that most of the additional fields would be numbers: > > integers, prices, decimals. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Tim > > > > -- > > True innovation is not just about changing a product, a service or > > even a > > marketplace; its also about recognizing and relishing the need to > > change > > yourself. > > -------------------------- > Grant Ingersoll > http://lucene.grantingersoll.com > > Lucene Boot Camp Training: > ApacheCon Atlanta, Nov. 12, 2007. Sign up now! http://www.apachecon.com > > Lucene Helpful Hints: > http://wiki.apache.org/lucene-java/BasicsOfPerformance > http://wiki.apache.org/lucene-java/LuceneFAQ > > > -- True innovation is not just about changing a product, a service or even a marketplace; its also about recognizing and relishing the need to change yourself.
