Good afternoon! I was in the IRC room earlier this morning with a problem, and I'm still having difficulty with it. I'm trying to do a site search upsell so that sponsored results can be highlighted and boosted to the top of the results. I need to have my default operator set to AND, because if it is set to OR I get rather unpredictable results. For example, out of an index of 300k items, a search for "old 97's" yields about 116k because they have the words "old" or "97" in them. With the default operator set to AND, I get 54 results, which would be the expected behaviour for the user who wants to find articles and events about that band.
Unfortunately, I can't boost certain queries with the default operator set to AND, because it adds those terms as a required clause to the search. I need the boosted terms to be an optional clause. I'm trying to do what the docs talk about here: http://wiki.apache.org/solr/SolrRelevancyCookbook#Boosting_Ranking_Terms So, my example search is "+(old 97's) id:events.event.88468^100" - which should search for the old 97's and optionally boost that individual event if it is part of the search results. When I run that search with the default operator set to AND, it is parsed into '+(+text:old +PhraseQuery(text:"97 s")) +id:events.event.88468^100.0' - making the particular event a required component of the search and returning only that 1 result. When I alter my search to "+(old 97's) || id:events.event.88468^100", it parses that to "(+text:old +text:"97 s") id:events.event.88468^100.0", which at first appeared to do what I wanted. With just "old 97's", I get 54 results. With "+(old 97's) || id:events.event.88468^100", I get 54 results with that particular event on top. However, if I try to boost another term, such as "+(old 97's) || granada^100" - I get over 300 results because it adds in all of the matches for the word "granada". This is not what I want. Instead of AND or OR, I want AND MAYBE. This is supported by the Xapian backend that I'm switching from, so I'm really hoping there's a way to do this in Solr. Thank you very much for any help you can provide! -Brandon
