try searching for matches where the name starts with whatever the user has entered so far with a wildcard
?q=vinc* Are you always going to be searching for names? If so you could see if the user has entered two terms and suffix each with a wildcard to get potentially more relevant searches. For example, if a user enters "vince p", you might substitute that with the query "vince* p*" to get the following hits Vincent Pérès Vincent Price Vince Price Vince Pérès etc... D 2009/5/31 Vincent Pérès <vincent.pe...@gmail.com> > > Hello, > > I built a feature which allow users to search for other user thanks to a > dynamic text box. > Like facebook, when you search for your friends, the name is display in a > javascript dropdown list with a small picture. > But I'm not completely happy with the search... I'm using a standard search > like "?q=vincent" and I get back the results list. If I type 'vinc' I will > not get any results (But I would like to display all the users where the > name start with 'vinc'). Maybe I need an extra param? > I also tried the autosuggest, but I get a list of terms and not direct > results... > > Could you suggest me some solr feature which could help me to get better > results? > > Thanks a lot ! > Vincent > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/User-search-in-Facebook-like-tp23804854p23804854.html > Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > >
