Re: search-time boosting

2007-04-03 Thread Erick Erickson
I don't think index time boosts are the way to go. From a message on this list that I printed out (from Otis? Yonik? Chris? someone who knows wy more about this topic than I do, probably Chris given the lack of capitalization ) '...index time field boosts are a way to express things like

Re: search-time boosting

2007-04-03 Thread Daniel Rosher
Hi Ofer, I think your best option is to boost the field for your category field during index time with Field.setBoost(floatBoost) You will have to reindex your corpus however. Regards, Dan On 4/2/07, Ofer Nave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'd like to be able to boost documents at search-time,

Re: search-time boosting

2007-04-02 Thread Mike Klaas
On 4/2/07, Ofer Nave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'd like to be able to boost documents at search-time, and I'm not sure how to do it. Example: I'm building a search engine for products (comparison shopping). Many queries tend to indicate a category (i.e., 'digital cameras') as opposed to a pro

search-time boosting

2007-04-02 Thread Ofer Nave
I'd like to be able to boost documents at search-time, and I'm not sure how to do it. Example: I'm building a search engine for products (comparison shopping). Many queries tend to indicate a category (i.e., 'digital cameras') as opposed to a product (i.e., 'canon powershot'). I have the na