On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 3:41 AM, Otis Gospodnetic <otis_gospodne...@yahoo.com > wrote:
> > ----- Original Message ---- > > > From: Shalin Shekhar Mangar <shalinman...@gmail.com> > > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > > Sent: Wed, December 23, 2009 2:45:21 AM > > Subject: Re: Adaptive search? > > > > On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 4:09 AM, Lance Norskog wrote: > > > > > Nice! > > > > > > Siddhant: Another problem to watch out for is the feedback problem: > > > someone clicks on a link and it automatically becomes more > > > interesting, so someone else clicks, and it gets even more > > > interesting... So you need some kind of suppression. For example, as > > > individual clicks get older, you can push them down. Or you can put a > > > cap on the number of clicks used to rank the query. > > > > > > > > We use clicks/views instead of just clicks to avoid this problem. > > Doesn't a click imply a view? You click to view. I must be missing > something... > > I was talking about boosting documents using past popularity. So a user searches for X and gets 10 results. This view is recorded for each of the 10 documents and added to the index later. If a user clicks on result #2, the click is recorded for doc #2 and added to index. We boost using clicks/view. -- Regards, Shalin Shekhar Mangar.
