> MaryJo you might want to start a new thread, I think we kinda hijacked this > one. Also if you are interested in tuning queries check out > http://splainer.io/ and https://www.quepid.com which are interactive tools > (both of which my company makes) to tune for search relevancy. >
Okay I changed the subject. But I don't need a tuning tool, I already know WHY I'm not getting the results I need, the problem is how to fix it or get around what the plugin is doing. Which is why I was inquiring if people have had success with something other than this particularly plugin for more advanced queries that it messes around with. It seems to do a good job if you aren't doing anything particularly complicated with your search logic, but I don't see a good way to solve the issue I'm having, and a tuning tool isn't really going to help with that. We were pretty happy with our search relevancy for the most part *other* than the problem with the multi-term synonyms not working reliably but I definitely can't lose relevancy that we had just to get those working. In reviewing your tools previously, the problem as I recall is that they rely on querying Solr directly, while our searches go through multiple levels of an application which includes a lot of additional logic in terms of what the data that gets sent to Solr are, so they just aren't going to be much use for us. It was easier for me to just write my own tool that essentially does the same kind of thing, but with my application logic built in. Mary Jo
