I have implemented ZendSearch into my Laravel application. I am using it as my search engine where users will type a search word, and then ZendSearch will return me an array of results ordered by r...

I've created a pretty advanced search for a Wordpress site I'm working on atm. Allowing visitors to filter results by different taxonomies, sort them by date or custom fields as well as the normal ...

If I run this query and print the score of each rows, they are always 1: Here are some sample query results: First | Last | Score ------------------------------ Jonathan | Bush | 1 Joshua | Gilbe...

I need to provide a weighted sort on 2+ factors, ordered by "relevancy". However, the factors aren't completely isolated, in that I want one or more of the factors to affect the "urgency" (weight) ...

In developing search for a site I am building, I decided to go the cheap and quick way and use Microsoft Sql Server's Full Text Search engine instead of something more robust like Lucene.Net. One ...

Suppose I have two columns, keywords and content. I have a fulltext index across both. I want a row with foo in the keywords to have more relevance than a row with foo in the content. What do I nee...

MySQL provides FULLTEXT indexes, that can be retrieved with the MATCH (col1,col2,...) AGAINST (expr [search_modifier]) construct. There are several Full-Text Search variants, one of them (and the d...

I have read over the chapter "Learning from clicks" in the book Programming Collective Intelligence and liked the idea: The search engine there learns on which results the user clicked and use this...

Is there any way to boost search results on same field depending on type? My basic boosting is something like: GET _search { "query": { "simple_query_string": { "query": "mangan", "fields":["...

When developing a database of articles in a Knowledge Base (for example) - what are the best ways to sort and display the most relevant answers to a users' question? Would you use additional data ...

In Solr I can use the query function query to return a numerical score for a query and I can user that in the context of a bf parameter something like bf=product(query('cat'),query('dog')) to multi...

Context : I'm relatively new to ElasticSearch, so maybe there's a concept I'm missing. I'd like to boost the relevance score of documents that have one or more tags (the more tags, the better the...

Elasticsearch takes the length of a document into account when ranking (they call this field normalization). The default behavior is to rank shorter matching documents higher than longer matching d...

I have been tasked with creating a site wide search feature. The search needs to look at articles, events and page content I've used MATCH()/AGAINST() in MySQL before and know how to get the relev...

I have a document, which contains many fields, one of them is country. There are many documents with the same country. When I do match query, or fuzzy search against country, and query for Belgium...

Here is my case; I have a field at my schema named elmo_field. I want that elmo_field should have payloaded values. i.e. dorothy|0.46 sesame|0.37 big bird|0.19 bird|0.22 When a user searches fo...

I have a table called cards which has related tables brigades and identifiers. A single card can have multiple brigades and identifiers. I want to take a singe search such as 'purple king' where 'p...

We currently have a Magento website with a large inventory, we are having some issues with relevance of ON SITE search results. We are currently set to 'combine like and fulltext' but the results a...

I am trying to get my Full text search to order by relevance. here is my code it works if remove the ORDER BY but doesn't sort by relevance. I have tried this and it actually makes it so it doesnt ...

When I use a "match all docs" query, '*:*', asterisk colon asterisk, how are the results ordered? I presume they get ordered by relevancy, but the relevancy is equal in this case, right? So then,...

I want to have search results from SOLR ordered like this: All the documents that have the same score will be ordered descending by date added. So when I query solr I will have n documents. In th...

I have two fields in posts table - post_title and post_content. Now I use standard full text search to match some keywords against both fields. I need to give the title field more relevance than th...

I recently installed solr. The example index (found at apache-solr-#.#.#\example\solr) seems to work, and, once copied to my solr home directory, I am able to access it through the admin pages. How...

consider I have a string1 = "hello hi goodmorning evening [...]" and I have some minor keywords compare1 = "hello evening" compare2 = "hello hi" I need a function that returns the affinity b...

I'm writting a predictive search that, for server performance requisites (all is cached), must be run on the client browser. The items are TV shows and movies and are matched by title, actors and d...