As chance would have it, this was just discussed over on the lucene user's list. See the thread..
Inverted search / Search on profilenetBest Erick On Jan 23, 2008 1:38 PM, George Everitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Verity had a function called "profiler" which was essentially an > inverted search engine. Instead of evaluating a single query at a > time against a large corpus of documents, the profiler evaluated a > single document at a time against a large number of queries. This > kind of functionality is used for alert notifications, where a large > number of users can have their own queries and as documents are > indexed into the system, the queries are matched and some kind of > notification is made to the owner of the query (e-mail, SMS, etc). > Think "Google Alerts". > > I'm wondering if anybody has implemented this kind of functionality > with Solr, and if so what strategy did you use? If you haven't > implemented something like that I would still be interested in ideas > on how to do it with Solr, or how to perhaps use Lucene to patch that > functionality into Solr? I have my own thoughts, but they are still a > bit primitive, and I'd like to throw it over the transom and see who > bites... > > George Everitt > Applied Relevance LLC > > > > > >
