I'm implementing a feature where admins have the ability to control the
order of the results by adding a boost to any specific search.
The search is a faceted interface (no text input) and which we take a
hash of the search parameters (to form a unique search id) and then
boost that field for the document.
The field is a wild card field so that it might look like this:
<field name="search395eff966b26a91d82935c8e1197330c_boost"
boost="90">true</field>
The problem is that in these search results I am seeing is that my
results are being grouped and the individual boost values are not having
the granular effect I am looking for.
Say on a result set of 75 documents. I see results with search boosts
of 60-70 receiving the same score even though they were indexed with
different boost values. There are always more than one group.
Does anyone know what might be causing this? Is there a better way to
do what I am looking for?
Thanks,
Brett
Field Definition:
<fieldType name="boost" class="solr.TextField"
sortMissingLast="true" omitNorms="false" omitTermFreqAndPositions="true">
<analyzer type="index">
<tokenizer class="solr.WhitespaceTokenizerFactory"/>
<filter class="solr.LowerCaseFilterFactory"/>
</analyzer>
<analyzer type="query">
<tokenizer class="solr.WhitespaceTokenizerFactory"/>
<filter class="solr.LowerCaseFilterFactory"/>
</analyzer>
</fieldType>
