http://www.lucidimagination.com/search/document/1aa4debdfe46d824/random_search_result
For your case, sort by score first and the random field second. sort=score desc, random84235 desc -Yonik http://www.lucidimagination.com On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 10:22 AM, Wouter Samaey <wouter.sam...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm currently new at Lucene and Solr, but I've managed to get some > results so far, and like the project very much. > For my current project, I need to randomize the search results, but > still keep the sorting by relevance. For example, If 3 results have > the same score, they can be ordered 1-2-3, 2-1-3-, 3-2-1, 2-3-1, etc > with every new search. > > And...another thing I'm interested in is how to make sure the > different results have equal display times if the scoring is the same. > If for example 20 results have the same score, and I only show 5 in my > app, I still want result nr 19 to be shown as many times as result 1, > because the score is the same. > > I know a search engine is meant to rank result by score, but I want > every result (with the same score) to have the same "face time" by > randomizing the order. > > Can anyone tell me if these things would be possible, and/or where to > start looking? > > Thanks in advance >
