Hi Paul, We've done this for a client in the past via a custom SearchComponent and it worked well. Yes, it involved some post-processing, but on the server, not client. I *think* we saw 10% performance degradation.
Otis -- Search Analytics - http://sematext.com/search-analytics/index.html Performance Monitoring - http://sematext.com/spm/index.html On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 3:26 AM, Paul Libbrecht <p...@hoplahup.net> wrote: > Hello SOLR expert, > > yesterday in our group we realized that a danger we may need to face is that > a search result includes very similar results. > Of course, one would expect skimming so that duplicates that show almost the > same results in a search result would be avoided but we fear that this is not > possible. > > I was wondering if some technology, plugin, or even research was existing > that would enable a search result to be partially reordered so that > "diversity" is ensured for a first page of results at least. > > I suppose that might be doable by processing the result page and the next > (and the five next?) and pushing down some results if they are "too" similar > to previous ones. > > Hope I am being clear. > > Paul
