synonym filtering at index time

2011-09-28 Thread Doug McKenzie
Trying to add in synonyms at index time but it's not working as expected. Here's the schema and example from synonyms.txt synonyms.txt has : watch, watches, watche, watchs schema for the field : fieldType name=text_ngram class=solr.TextField positionIncrementGap=100 analyzer type=index

Re: Solr wildcard searching

2011-09-23 Thread Doug McKenzie
Im using EdgeNgrams to do the same thing rather than wild card searches. More info here : http://www.lucidimagination.com/blog/2009/09/08/auto-suggest-from-popular-queries-using-edgengrams/ Make sure your search phrase is enclosed in quotes as well so its treated as a phrase rather than 2

Re: Sort five random Top Offers to the top

2011-09-22 Thread Doug McKenzie
Could you not just do your normal search with and add a filter query on? fq=topoffer:true That would then return only results with top offer : true and then use whatever shuffling / randomising you like in your application. Alternately you could even add sorting on relevance to show the top 5

Autosuggest best practice / feedback

2011-09-22 Thread Doug McKenzie
Hi there, I'm relatively new to Solr and have been playing around with it for a few weeks now. I've got a system setup now that I'm currently quite happy with and is returning some decent results (although there's always room for improvement). Just hoping to get some feedback on the setup