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Apache Solr Search Patterns

You're reading from   Apache Solr Search Patterns Leverage the power of Apache Solr to power up your business by navigating your users to their data quickly and efficiently

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2015
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ISBN-13 9781783981847
Length 316 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Jayant Kumar Jayant Kumar
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Preface 1. Solr Indexing Internals 2. Customizing the Solr Scoring Algorithm FREE CHAPTER 3. Solr Internals and Custom Queries 4. Solr for Big Data 5. Solr in E-commerce 6. Solr for Spatial Search 7. Using Solr in an Advertising System 8. AJAX Solr 9. SolrCloud 10. Text Tagging with Lucene FST Index

Handling unclean data


What do we mean by unclean data? In the last section, we discussed a customer searching for pink sweater, where pink is the color and sweater is the type of clothing. However, the system or the search engine cannot interpret the input in this fashion. Therefore, in our e-commerce schema design earlier, we created a query that searched across all fields available in the index. We then created a separate copyField class to handle search across fields, such as clothes_color, that are not being searched in the default query.

Now, will our query give good results? What if there is a brand named pink? Then what would the results be like? First of all, we would not be sure whether pink is intended to be the color or the brand. Suppose we say that pink is intended to be the color, but we are also searching across brands and it will contain pink as the brand name. The results will be a mix of both clothes_color and brand. In our query, we are boosting brand, so what happens is...

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