Thanks Ravi. Do you tag the product as TOP as a binary flag? My marketing team wants to use the number of orders but that screws up the relevance horribly. My thought is to tag a product with a product attribute (as you suggest) and tag it as TOP selling. Then I have pure relevance, but can give a small boost to TOP products.
Do you determine when they are searching for a product? Otherwise, if I search for a part and you boost products that would be frustrating to a user. Thanks for the discussion. -Bob On Oct 3, 2014, at 9:38 AM, EXTERNAL Taminidi Ravi (ETI, Automotive-Service-Solutions) <external.ravi.tamin...@us.bosch.com> wrote: > Hi Bob, I tried using a product type attribute which separates the > products/parts and boost the product in TOP with OR condition for productype > as parts. This way you get all the products /parts related to your search and > always keeping the Products in the Top and Parts next to Products. This is a > kind of playing with the query so your relevance won't break. > > Regards > > Ravi > > -----Original Message----- > From: Bob Laferriere [mailto:spongeb...@icloud.com] > Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2014 10:47 PM > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > Subject: Boosting Top selling items > > I have been working to try and identify top selling items in an eCommerce app > and boost those in the results. The struggle I am having is that our catalog > stores products and parts in the same taxonomy. Since parts are ordered more > frequently when you search for something like TV you see cables and antennas > first. My theory is that someone needs to tag products as Top Selling as a > facet then use faceted search to avoid an artificial boost which screws up > document relevance. Anyone fight with anything similar? Interested in > discussing with other eCommerce search developers. > > Regards, > > Bob
