I'm sorry I wasn't more specific, I meant we were hijacking the thread with the question, "Anyone used a different method of handling multi-term synonyms that isn't as global?" as the original thread was about getting synonym_edismax running.
On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 2:24 PM, MaryJo Sminkey <mjsmin...@gmail.com> wrote: > > MaryJo you might want to start a new thread, I think we kinda hijacked > this > > one. Also if you are interested in tuning queries check out > > http://splainer.io/ and https://www.quepid.com which are interactive > tools > > (both of which my company makes) to tune for search relevancy. > > > > > Okay I changed the subject. But I don't need a tuning tool, I already know > WHY I'm not getting the results I need, the problem is how to fix it or get > around what the plugin is doing. Which is why I was inquiring if people > have had success with something other than this particularly plugin for > more advanced queries that it messes around with. It seems to do a good job > if you aren't doing anything particularly complicated with your search > logic, but I don't see a good way to solve the issue I'm having, and a > tuning tool isn't really going to help with that. We were pretty happy with > our search relevancy for the most part *other* than the problem with the > multi-term synonyms not working reliably but I definitely can't lose > relevancy that we had just to get those working. > > In reviewing your tools previously, the problem as I recall is that they > rely on querying Solr directly, while our searches go through multiple > levels of an application which includes a lot of additional logic in terms > of what the data that gets sent to Solr are, so they just aren't going to > be much use for us. It was easier for me to just write my own tool that > essentially does the same kind of thing, but with my application logic > built in. > > Mary Jo >
