On 7/15/06, WHIRLYCOTT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I need to have my search result relevance influenced by time. Older things in my index are less relevant than newer things. I don't want to do a strict sort by date. Is this supported somehow by using a dismax request handler? Or if you have other hints, I'm eager to know what they are.
dismax handler has a bf (boosting function) parameter that may be used to specify a function over the date field. You could try something like setting bf to recip(rord(mydatefield),1,1000,1000)^0.5 A reciprocal function over the reverse ordinal of the date field, with a weight of .5 (adjust weight until you get the right balance) http://incubator.apache.org/solr/docs/api/org/apache/solr/request/DisMaxRequestHandler.html -Yonik
