To do a proper search suggest feature you have to index all the queries your system gets and search it with wildcards for matches on what the user has typed so far for each user keystroke in the search box... Usually with some timer logic to wait for a small hesitation in their typing.
-----Original Message----- From: Jack Bates [mailto:ms...@freezone.co.uk] Sent: Tuesday, July 28, 2009 10:54 AM To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: search suggest how can i use solr to make search suggestions? i'm thinking google-style suggestions, which suggests more refined queries - vs. freebase-style suggestions, which suggests top hits. i've been looking at the query params, http://wiki.apache.org/solr/StandardRequestHandler - and searching for "solr suggest" - but haven't figured out how to get search suggestions from solr