Don't set a document boost. Just add a date range to all queries. On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 9:56 AM, Almas1997 <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hi all, > > I have the following problem. My lucene index contains documents with > fields > Text and CreatedDate. > I'd like to have document search results sorted by relevance but also wants > to show newest documents first within reasonable limits. > > I can create sorting by relevance and then by date, but this approach > provide too rough results, because even the oldest documents with higher > rank will come first. I'd like to have more elegant solution. > > It seems that i should include document date to scoring formula to get more > rank to the newer documents. Probably I can set document boost based on > date, so newest documents will have bigger boost value. But i'm not sure is > this variant correct. > > Maybe someone can suggest more correct approach? > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://old.nabble.com/Improving-relevance-by-document-date-tp27375856p27375856.html > Sent from the Lucene - General mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > -- Ted Dunning, CTO DeepDyve
