Why can't you shuffle in the app? Once you have the groups returned, _how_ you display them is up to you. And you can sort the groups based on fields.
Best Erick On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 7:15 PM, Bruno René Santos <brunor...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hi Erick, > > Yes we have lots of documents with the same score. We turned off IDF and on > some fields also the norms and frequencies. And so on a business point of > view we need to shuffle those results in order to give the opportunity to > any document with the highest score to be in first. > > The problem here is that when we group results the same group always stays > on top (the group with the highest number of items but with the same score > than the second, first has 214 second has 2 items) and we need it to > shuffle between those two. > > On a different query there is shuffling when the the groups with the > highest score have a small number of items (1-3). > > We need shuffling on the first example also. > > Regards > > > On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 9:37 PM, Erick Erickson <erickerick...@gmail.com > >wrote: > > > bq: We sort first by the score and then by a random field. > > > > This is highly unlikely to produce anything useful. Your > > secondary sort (random field) will only be used if your > > primary sort (score) matches exactly, which is usually > > quite rare. Unless you're somehow doing a constant-score > > query (e.g. *:*).... > > > > So either you have a very unusual corpus that is scoring > > lots and lots of docs exactly the same or there's something > > I'm not understanding. > > > > Best > > Erick > > > > > > On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 12:13 PM, Bruno René Santos <brunor...@gmail.com > > >wrote: > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > We are trying to make a random sort with a query where we are grouping > > > results by a field. On one example we always have one of the results on > > the > > > top of the query result. We sort first by the score and then by a > random > > > field. > > > > > > We think that is because this group has 214 items inside and the second > > > group only has 6 items. That way the random sort on the first group > would > > > get the first group like 99% of times on the first place of the > results. > > > > > > Can someone confirm this behaviour? > > > > > > Regards > > > > > > -- > > > Bruno René Santos > > > Lisboa - Portugal > > > > > > > > > -- > Bruno René Santos > Lisboa - Portugal >
