Re: Search result ordering

2009-05-02 Thread Michael McCandless
ts we get sometimes.  Just trying to see if we could squeeze > some more cycles out of it. > > Thanks for the help. > > regards, > > Bill Chesky > > -Original Message- > From: Erick Erickson [mailto:erickerick...@gmail.com] > Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 4

RE: Search result ordering

2009-04-29 Thread Bill.Chesky
l 29, 2009 4:23 PM To: java-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: Re: Search result ordering I really doubt boosting at index time will help. All that expresses is that "this document's title (say) is more important *when calculating score* than other documents with a smaller title boost&quo

Re: Search result ordering

2009-04-29 Thread Erick Erickson
ry using one of the HitCollectors as you > suggest to see if it makes a difference. > > regards, > > -- > Bill Chesky > > -----Original Message- > From: Erick Erickson [mailto:erickerick...@gmail.com] > Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 1:46 PM > To: java-user@lucene.apac

RE: Search result ordering

2009-04-29 Thread Bill.Chesky
29, 2009 1:46 PM To: java-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: Re: Search result ordering People (including me) use Lucene to page through results all the time, so I'm pretty sure you're OK. so here's my answers... (1) yes. (2) Well, the default sort is by score so if you want some othe

Re: Search result ordering

2009-04-29 Thread Erick Erickson
People (including me) use Lucene to page through results all the time, so I'm pretty sure you're OK. so here's my answers... (1) yes. (2) Well, the default sort is by score so if you want some other ordering you have to sort. (3) You can boost things at index time, but I don't think that's at