You missed the point. They have different intents, so speed is irrelevant. >From your original post:
<<<and using lucene. my job is to give boost to a particular set of pages>>> In which case you want to do index-time boosting. So don't do anything until you understand the difference <G>... Best Erick On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 3:05 PM, sumittyagi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > which one do you think is faster, boosting at search time or boosting at > index time... > thanks for the reply.. > > Erick Erickson wrote: > > > > From the Hossman: > > > > '...Index time field boosts are a way to express things like "this > > documents > > title is worth twice as much as the title of most documents". Query time > > boosts are a way to express "I care about matches on this clause of my > > query > > twice as much as I do about matches to other clauses of my query.' > > > > > > So, I think you want to think about index time boosts..... > > > > Best > > Erick > > > > On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 2:38 PM, sumittyagi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > >> > >> Hi, I am maintaing a website's search engine, and using lucene. > >> my job is to give boost to a particular set of pages, like pages about > >> the > >> Products of the company, Pages giving description of the company, about > >> technology used etc etc..... > >> How can i start that, I mean i just joined this job and want to perform > >> good. > >> Please let me know about it, if you need any particular information, let > >> me > >> know... > >> > >> thanks > >> Sumit > >> -- > >> View this message in context: > >> > http://www.nabble.com/Giving-Boost-to-a-certain-category-of-pages-tp17806910p17806910.html > >> Sent from the Lucene - Java Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > >> > >> > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> > >> > > > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/Giving-Boost-to-a-certain-category-of-pages-tp17806910p17807505.html > Sent from the Lucene - Java Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
