Hi Erick, Hence my second question. Is there anything else I can do?
Lev On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 3:23 AM, Erick Erickson <erickerick...@gmail.com>wrote: > First question is whether you want to. There are ways to stop the > search, but how do you know that the last document of your 200K > isn't the most relevant? There's no way I know to determine that > without examining all the docs. > > Best > Erick > > On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 11:20 AM, John <fatmanc...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > In my search application, I sometimes get more than 200k matches for a > > specific query. > > Although I only present the first 20, I still run over the entire 200k > > because I use my own Similarity function. > > > > Is there a way to make this search smarter? I thought limiting the total > > possible matches to 50-100k, but couldn't find how to set it up in Solr. > Any > > ideas? > > > > Is there anything else I can do? > > > > Thanks, > > John > > >