Frank, w.r.t features you may draw a lot of inspiration from these two sites
1. http://mumbai.burrp.com/ 2. http://askme.in/ Both these products are Indian local search applications. #1 primarily focuses on the eating out domain. All the search/suggest related features on these sites are powered by Solr. You can take a lot of cues for building the auto-complete feature, using facets, custom highlighting etc. Cheers Avlesh http://webklipper.com On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 6:08 AM, Frank A <fsa...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm playing with SOLR as the search engine for my local search site. I'm > primarily focused on restaurants right now. I'm working with the following > data attributes: > > Name - Restaurant name > Cuisine - a list of 1 or more cusines, e.g. Italian, Pizza > Features - a list of 1 or more features - Open Late, Take-Out > Tags - a list of 1 or more freeform, open entry tags > > I want the site to allow searches by name e.g. "Jake's Pizza" as well as > more general "pizza" and even something like "take-out pizza". I'd also > like to handle variations, "takeout" "carryout" and spelling issues. > > I've started with the out of the box text definition and cloned it for > cuisines, features and tags. For name I've left it as a string and then > created a copyTo field for the phoentic value of Name. My "text" catch-all > has all the fields copied to it. Finally, I implemented spell check as > well. > > The search seems to work pretty well based on some initial testing but I > feel like I'm missing something. I'm curious as to any advice around some > missing features I should be utilizing or steps that I've missed etc... > > The steps I was planning: > - Update the stopwords to contain certain adjectives ("good" "best", etc). > - Create synonyms for features and cuisines > > All thoughts/comments/advice is really appreciated. > Thanks. >
