Most search engine technologies return result sets based some weighted frequency of the search terms found. I've got a new problem, I want to rank by different criteria than I searched for.
For example, I might want to return as my result set all documents that contain the word pizza, but rank them according to topping preferences (with garlic at the top and goat cheese at the bottom). Two questions. 1) Does Lucene allow one to mandatorily search for a term, but provide it zero weight, while allowing other terms to have zero influence on the result set, but affect their order? I'm thinking something like +pizza^0 garlic^1 "goat cheese"^-1 The concern is that I don't want any results that happen to mention garlic or goat cheese except in the context of pizza. 2) Once I have this list of results, can I change their rank order without having to do a full scale search again? -wls
