This seems like a simple query-time boost, although I may not be understanding your problem well. That is, q=source(bbc OR "associated press")^10
As for boosting more recent documents, see: http://wiki.apache.org/solr/SolrRelevancyFAQ#How_can_I_boost_the_score_of_newer_documents HTH Erick On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 12:44 PM, Ravi Kiran <ravi.bhas...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > I am currently querying solr for a "*primarysection*" which will > return documents like - *q=primarysection:(Politics* OR > Nation*)&fq=contenttype:("Blog" OR "Photo Gallery) pubdatetime:[NOW-3MONTHS > TO NOW]"*. Each document has several fields of which I am most interested > in > single valued field called "*source*" ...I want to boost documents which > contain "*source*" value say "Associated Press" OR "BBC" and also by newer > documents. The returned documents may have several other source values > other > than "BBC" or "Associated Press". since I specifically don't query on these > source values I am not sure how I can boost them, Iam using * > StandardRequestHandler* >
