Re: Diversifying Search Results - Custom Collector

2012-08-20 Thread Mikhail Khludnev
Hello, I've got the problem description below. Can you explain the expected user experience, and/or solution approach before diving into the algorithm design? Thanks On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 2:50 AM, Karthick Duraisamy Soundararaj karthick.soundara...@gmail.com wrote: My problem is that when

Re: Diversifying Search Results - Custom Collector

2012-08-20 Thread Karthick Duraisamy Soundararaj
Hello Mikhail, Thank you for the reply. In terms of user experience, I want to spread out the products from same brand farther from each other, *atleast* in the first 50-100 results we display. I am thinking about two different approaches as solution.

Re: Diversifying Search Results - Custom Collector

2012-08-20 Thread Karthick Duraisamy Soundararaj
Tanguy, You idea is perfect for cases where there is a too many documents with 80-90% documents having same value for a particular field. As an example, your idea is ideal for, lets say we have 10 documents in total like this, doc1 : merchantName Kellog's /merchantName doc2 :

Re: Diversifying Search Results - Custom Collector

2012-08-20 Thread Mikhail Khludnev
Hello, I don't believe your task can be solved by playing with scoring/collector or shuffling. For me it's absolutely Grouping usecase (despite I don't really know this feature well). Grouping cannot solve the problem because I dont want to limit the number of results showed based on the

Re: Diversifying Search Results - Custom Collector

2012-08-20 Thread Karthick Duraisamy Soundararaj
Hi Mikhail, You are correct. [+] show 6 result.. will work but it wouldn't suit my requirements. This is a question of user experience right? Imagine if the product manager comes to you and says I dont want to see [+] show 6 result.. and I want the results to be diverse but