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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

Requirements of an ad distribution system


Now that we have studied the system architecture of an ad distribution network and the various components, let us look at the requirements of an ad distribution system from the viewpoint of performance. Of course, performance is of primary importance. We saw that there are multiple ways in which an ad publisher generates revenue from an ad network. CTR is the most preferred way of measuring the performance of an ad and hence that of the ad network.

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CTR stands for Click Through Rate. It is defined as the division of the number of clicks made on an advertisement by the total number of times the advertisement was served (impressions).

In order to deliver a good CTR, the ad being displayed needs to be close to the context of the page currently being viewed by the user. In order to derive the context, we need to run a search with the title and metadata on the page and identify the ads related to that page. Let us create a sample Solr schema for an...

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