Definitely can do this, but how depends on the query parser you're using.
With dismax/edismax you can use bq=filetype:pdf^10 (where "filetype:pdf" is a
valid Lucene query parser expression for your documents).
Erik
On Mar 11, 2013, at 09:31 , Van Tassell, Kristian wrote:
> I want to be able to boost results where the filetype is a pdf:
>
> Here is some pseudo code so I don't misrepresent/misinterpret via a URL:
>
> search("foobar")
> foreach result (where filetype==pdf) {
> boost^10
> }
>
> Is there a way to do this?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
