> Is there any way to modify result > ranking using an integer field? > > I have documents that have an integer field "popularity". > > I want to rank results by a combination of normal fulltext > search > relevance and popularity. It's kinda like search in digg - > result > ranking is based on the search relevance as well as how > many digs a > posting has. > I don't have any specific ranking algorithm in mind. But > is this > something that can be done with solr?
Yes. http://lucene.apache.org/solr/api/org/apache/solr/search/BoostQParserPlugin.html