Seemed like its first search required match all terms. If it could not find it, like you motioned, you broke down into multiple smaller term set and ran search to get total hit for each smaller term set, sort the results by total hits, and display summary page.
Searching for "A B C" would be 1. q= +A +B +C Match all terms 2. q= +A +B -C Match A and B but not C 3. q =+A -B +C 4. q = .... -----Original Message----- From: Caligula [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2008 11:52 Joe To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: RE: No search result behavior (a la Amazon) I understand how to do the "100% mm" part. It's the behavior when there are no matches that i'm asking about :) Nguyen, Joe-2 wrote: > > Have a look at DisMaxRequestHandler and play with mm (miminum terms > should match) > > http://wiki.apache.org/solr/DisMaxRequestHandler?highlight=%28Category > So > lrRequestHandler%29%7C%28%28CategorySolrRequestHandler%29%29#head-6c5f > e4 > 1d68f3910ed544311435393f5727408e61 > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Caligula [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2008 11:11 Joe > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > Subject: No search result behavior (a la Amazon) > > > It appears to me that Amazon is using a 100% minimum match policy. If > there are no matches, they break down the original search terms and > give suggestion search results. > > example: > > http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_gw?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keyw > or ds=ipod+nano+4th+generation+8gb+blue+calcium&x=0&y=0 > > > Can Solr natively achieve something similar? If not, can you suggest > a way to achieve this? A custom RequestHandler? > > > Thanks! > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/No-search-result-behavior-%28a-la-Amazon%29-tp20 > 58 > 7024p20587024.html > Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/No-search-result-behavior-%28a-la-Amazon%29-tp2058 7024p20587896.html Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
