Re: Random sorting results

2009-03-21 Thread Chris Lu
Maybe you can adjust your ranking algorithm. For example, rank the most recent results higher? -- Chris Lu - Instant Scalable Full-Text Search On Any Database/Application site: http://www.dbsight.net demo: http://search.dbsight.com Lucene Database Search in 3 minutes: ht

Index Partitioning

2009-03-21 Thread Shashi Kant
Is there an "elegant" approach to partitioning a large Lucene index (~1TB) into smaller sub-indexes other than the obvious method of re-indexing into partitions? Any ideas? Thanks, Shashi

Random sorting results

2009-03-21 Thread rawmans...@gmail.com
Hi, In the search application I'm working on I would like to prevent the user from getting always the same search results for a certain query, but without affecting results quality too much. In order to do so I'm processing the hits in smaller chunks and doing some random shuffle inside the

Re: need scoring help

2009-03-21 Thread Grant Ingersoll
Hi, As a starter, you might find http://www.lucidimagination.com/Community/Hear-from-the-Experts/Articles/Debugging-Relevance-Issues-Search useful. The key thing to do first is use Lucene's built in explain method to see why any particular document scores the way it does, then work from t