Hi, This can be done with 'more like this' functionality in Solr: http://wiki.apache.org/solr/MoreLikeThis
Bye, Jaco. 2008/10/29 Marian Steinbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Hi! > > Out of curiosity: How would one implement "search by example" with Solr? > > What I mean: > > Say I have a result entry with these fields/attributes: > > id: 1 > title: blue big slow car > color: blue > size: 30 > maxspeed: 100 > make: buses inc. > > What would I have to do in order to find "similar" items? Do a search > for all these attribute/values as OR statement? > > (title:"blue big slow car" OR color:blue OR size:30 OR maxspeed:100 OR > make:"buses inc.") -id:1 > > Would this bring up useful results? > > This might be a more general Lucene question, but since I don't use > Lucene anywhere else but in Solr context, I'd be happy to find an > answer here. > > Thanks! > > Marian >
