RE: Google finance-like suggestible search field

2009-01-15 Thread Hayes, Peter
Thanks for your input. I will try and apply your suggestion. Thanks, Peter -Original Message- From: Asbjørn A. Fellinghaug [mailto:asbj...@fellinghaug.com] Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2009 3:25 AM To: java-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: Re: Google finance-like suggestible search field

RE: Google finance-like suggestible search field

2009-01-15 Thread Hayes, Peter
>First, it's a legitimate question whether matching on single-letter >prefixes is useful for the user. If you're running into TooManyClauses, >that means (if you haven't changed the defaults) that there are more >than 1024 possibilities. Which is far too many for the user to scan through. That is

RE: Google finance-like suggestible search field

2009-01-14 Thread Hayes, Peter
eter, > > Why don't you put all your "autocompletable" values into a single > document field and just query a single field? Google seems to only use > two fields for autocomplete - symbol and company name. > > Eric > > -Original Message- > From: Hayes,

Google finance-like suggestible search field

2009-01-14 Thread Hayes, Peter
Hi all, We are trying to implement a Google finance-like suggest as you type search field. The index is quite large and comprised of multiple fields to search across so our initial implementation was to use a BooleanQuery with multiple PrefixQuery across each field. We quickly ran into the TooMa