I meant boost  not boot :(

On Sunday, February 22, 2015 at 7:48:52 PM UTC-6, Adam Gamble wrote:
>
> I'm wanting to boot individual items in my search results based on the 
> query being performed. I'd like to assign a number to a result that will 
> boost it specifically for that query.
>
> Example:
> Item 1 gets a 20 point boost when the search is for flowers, but the same 
> item only gets 5 points when the search is for cloud. My idea is to store 
> this in our DB as a table like so:
>
> item_id | query     | boost
> 1          | "flowers" | 20
> 1          | "clouds"  | 5
> etc. etc.
>
> Any ideas how I go achieve something like this? Also is this a terrible 
> idea? Basically I was going to run a process that is constantly tweaking 
> these boost numbers based on how the items perform (views, downloads, etc) 
> in a specific search
>
> I hope this makes sense, let me know if you need more explaining.
>
> Thanks
> Adam
>

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