Boosting is the art of increasing the relevance of search result based on alternative indices/properties. It is the opposite of penalizing.
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Struggling with a solr query and relevance
I have a problem with boosting when using Solr. We recently switched from Lucene to Solr.
We have 4 (primary) search fields that we search against: essence, keywords, allSearchable, and quality; where, for each document in the index, essence…

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Boost solr items within a range: is facet search an option?
I want to have a long listing of items in Solr with a very specific order. I have no experience with Solr facets: are they a good way to group results in a date-range where inside the range I can boost various items a bit?
Ordering principle
All…

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solr : how to boost query term after tokenizer
If the query word is "ABCD", then after being tokenized it is "A" "BC" "D". I want to boost term "BC", so the query word is like this:
A BC^10 D" and phrase query "ABCD"
All query words users typing in will be processed like that automaticly so that…

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SolrNet: What is the correct way to specify Boost values at index time?
I am going to index documents that will have Boost values from 1 to 10. One way is to simply use AddWithBoost(doc , boostvalue) . But is this the correct way? Do I need to translate the scale (1 - 10) to some other range in order to make sure that…

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Apache Solr: Why does the boost parameter in eDisMax result in squared score boosting?
I am using Apache Solr for my search functionality and I have encountered an unexpected behavior with the boost parameter in the eDisMax query parser. When I try to boost the score of the documents matching a certain query, the scores are getting…

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How to deboost multiple fields in Solr using BQ argument
I am trying to deboost certain documents based on an attribute called department code.
The following works:
bq=(*:* -department_code:"others")^10
However, when I want to add another department to the deboost, I try the following query and it fails…

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Boost score according to the search string + array length of the field in elasticsearch
I am using elasticsearch and python for text searches in my application. I have a use case where, I have to boost a score of the result without decreasing the result count for a field which consists of array, array could be empty or could consists…

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Elasticsearch - boost some documents on top if sorted on a field value
This is my current elastic query. Currently its sorted based on review_rating. I want some products to be boosted on top of it. Is there any way to update the script function to update the review_rating value so that product_id "abc-xyz" and…

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Is there a way to boost based on value of an index property in Hybris solr?
We have a requirement wherein we need to make boosting for a field dynamic. Let's say that we have an indexed property foo, we need to perform a mathematical calculation on foo to determine its boost value which would be different for every…

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C# Solr boost not being applied to generated query
I'm using Solr 7.5 with Sitecore 9.2. I have some complex code that generates a search query, which I'm now trying to apply boosting to to prioritize page items over media assets (the relevant lines begin at isAssetPredicate....
public override…

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How does Elasticsearch aggregate or weight scores from two sub queries ("bool query" and "decay function")
I have a complicated Elasticsearch query like the following example. This query has two sub queries: a weighted bool query and a decay function. I am trying to understand how Elasticsearch aggregrates the scores from each sub queries. If I run the…

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Customized Boosting in Solr
I'm using Solr in a search app, where data has been divided in different types but in same collection. Each document in collection has d_type field which defines the type of data.
Example
Consider I have 5 type of…

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Solr - How to index and boost results using several popularity fields?
Here is a sample document -
{
"id": "AIRPORT-LAS",
"RANK": 80.0,
"TYPE": "AIRPORT",
"COUNTRY_NAME": "United States",
"COUNTRY_CODE": "US",
"ISO_COUNTRY_CODE": "US",
"LATITUDE": "36.08047103880001",
"LONGITUDE":…

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SOLR boost query order is wrong
I want to retrieve some documents from SOLR and pass boosts to the field's so that they are returned in the order I request them (respectively the web request requests them). Therefore I add boosts to the desired ids:
q=myfield:"9125129"^10 OR
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