Hmm, I already boost certain fields, but from what I know about it you would need to know the boost value ahead of time which is not possible as it would be a different boost for each document depending on how it was rated..
I did think of one thing though. If I had a field that had a value of 1-5 for each document, and took that and used it to then add a boost to the fields I was actually searching on (or the final score) that would probably work, is that possible? -Reece On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 1:51 PM, Matthew Runo <mr...@zappos.com> wrote: > You could use a boost function to gently boost up items which were marked as > more popular. > > You would send the function query in the "bf" parameter with your query, and > you can find out more about syntax here: > http://wiki.apache.org/solr/FunctionQuery > > Thanks for your time! > > Matthew Runo > Software Engineer, Zappos.com > mr...@zappos.com - 702-943-7833 > > On Jan 29, 2009, at 10:27 AM, Reece wrote: > >> Currently I'm using SOLR 1.2 to index a few million documents. It's >> been requested that a way for users to rate the documents be done so >> that something rated higher would show up higher in search results and >> vice verse. >> >> I've been thinking about it, but can't come up with a good way to do >> this and still have the "best match" ranking of the results according >> to search terms entered by the users. >> >> I was hoping someone had done something similar or would have some >> insight on it. >> >> Thanks in advance! >> >> -Reece >> > >
