Usually IR system is measured using Precision & Recall. But depends on what kind of system you are developing to fit what scenario.
Take a look http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precision_and_recall 2014-04-01 10:23 GMT+08:00 azhar2007 <azhar2...@outlook.com>: > Hi people. Ive developed a search engine to implement and improve it using > another search engine as a test case. Now I want to compare and test > results > from both to determine which is better. I am unaware of how to do this so > someone please point me in the right direction. > > Regards > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/ranking-retrieval-measure-tp4128324.html > Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >