RE: Ngram Repeats

2009-01-05 Thread Feak, Todd
-Original Message- From: Jeff Newburn [mailto:jnewb...@zappos.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 24, 2008 2:30 PM To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: Re: Ngram Repeats You are correct on the layout. The reason we are trying to do the ngrams is we want to do a drop down box for autocomplete

Re: Ngram Repeats

2008-12-24 Thread Jeff Newburn
You are correct on the layout. The reason we are trying to do the ngrams is we want to do a drop down box for autocomplete. The ngrams are extremely fast and the recommended way to do this according to the user group. They work wonderfully except this one issue. So do we basically have to do a

RE: Ngram Repeats

2008-12-24 Thread Feak, Todd
It sounds like you want to get a list of "brands" that start with a particular string, out of your index. But your index is based on products, not brands. Is that correct? If so, that has nothing to do with NGrams (or even tokenizing for that matter) I think you should be doing a Facet query in