Re: Random + Boost?

2011-08-17 Thread Chris Hostetter
This is the type of problem that's fun to think about... : As for RandomSortField + function queries... I'm not sure I understand how I : can use that to achieve what I need :-/ the RandomSortField was designed for simple sorting, ie... sort=random_1234 desc ...but it can also be used as

Random + Boost?

2011-08-16 Thread Steven Ou
Hey guys, This might seem odd, but is it possible to use boost with random ordering? That is, documents that get boosted are more likely to appear towards the top of the ordering (I only display page 1, say 30 documents). Does that make sense? I'm assuming that random ordering is, well, really

Re: Random + Boost?

2011-08-16 Thread Ahmet Arslan
This might seem odd, but is it possible to use boost with random ordering? That is, documents that get boosted are more likely to appear towards the top of the ordering (I only display page 1, say 30 documents). Does that make sense? I'm assuming that random ordering is, well, really

Re: Random + Boost?

2011-08-16 Thread Alexei Martchenko
To make random results i'd use something related to dates and milliseconds, not boosting. lemme think about this... 2011/8/16 Ahmet Arslan iori...@yahoo.com This might seem odd, but is it possible to use boost with random ordering? That is, documents that get boosted are more likely to

Re: Random + Boost?

2011-08-16 Thread Steven Ou
Thank you for the response! I'm learning much about Solr... So I think FieldCollapsing might do the trick... So if I understand correctly, I should be able to group by type A, B, C, D, E, F, sort groups randomly, sort within groups randomly, display simple format, and get an evenly distributed set