I'm trying to figure out what the best practice is in term of using sorting
or customized scoring.
For example, if I have want to index some static pages and rank them by how
many times a page is viewed. I can get the page view counters and store
them in the index document as a field COUNTER. I want to be able to sort
query result in the order of most viewed pages. I see three ways to do it:
1. Search result sorting
Search.search(query, sort);
2. Use the counter itself as the score
FieldScoreQuery("COUNTER", FieldScoreQuery.Type.INT);
3. Customize scoring
Set boost on COUNTER field during index time
I haven't got the last one working yet. Somehow, when I query, boost value
on the COUNTER field is ignored.
Any inputs?
Thanks,
John X.
