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Posted to solr-user@lucene.apache.org by Frank A <fs...@gmail.com> on 2010/06/07 02:38:33 UTC
solr configuration for local search
Hi,
I'm playing with SOLR as the search engine for my local search site. I'm
primarily focused on restaurants right now. I'm working with the following
data attributes:
Name - Restaurant name
Cuisine - a list of 1 or more cusines, e.g. Italian, Pizza
Features - a list of 1 or more features - Open Late, Take-Out
Tags - a list of 1 or more freeform, open entry tags
I want the site to allow searches by name e.g. "Jake's Pizza" as well as
more general "pizza" and even something like "take-out pizza". I'd also
like to handle variations, "takeout" "carryout" and spelling issues.
I've started with the out of the box text definition and cloned it for
cuisines, features and tags. For name I've left it as a string and then
created a copyTo field for the phoentic value of Name. My "text" catch-all
has all the fields copied to it. Finally, I implemented spell check as
well.
The search seems to work pretty well based on some initial testing but I
feel like I'm missing something. I'm curious as to any advice around some
missing features I should be utilizing or steps that I've missed etc...
The steps I was planning:
- Update the stopwords to contain certain adjectives ("good" "best", etc).
- Create synonyms for features and cuisines
All thoughts/comments/advice is really appreciated.
Thanks.
Re: solr configuration for local search
Posted by Avlesh Singh <av...@gmail.com>.
They is me!
Yes, multiple queries are being fired (though concurrently) for fetching
suggestion. You would probably want to take this off the list with me for
questions, if any.
Cheers
Avlesh
http://webklipper.com
On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 5:04 PM, Frank A <fs...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks.
>
> Do you have any idea what features they use, specifically thhe types of
> tokenizers and analyzers?
>
> Also, do you think they use two separate queries for the business name
> versus "you may be looking for"?
>
> Thanks again.
>
> On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 9:36 PM, Avlesh Singh <av...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Frank, w.r.t features you may draw a lot of inspiration from these two
> > sites
> >
> > 1. http://mumbai.burrp.com/
> > 2. http://askme.in/
> >
> > Both these products are Indian local search applications. #1 primarily
> > focuses on the eating out domain. All the search/suggest related features
> > on
> > these sites are powered by Solr. You can take a lot of cues for building
> > the
> > auto-complete feature, using facets, custom highlighting etc.
> >
> > Cheers
> > Avlesh
> > http://webklipper.com
> >
> > On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 6:08 AM, Frank A <fs...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I'm playing with SOLR as the search engine for my local search site.
> I'm
> > > primarily focused on restaurants right now. I'm working with the
> > following
> > > data attributes:
> > >
> > > Name - Restaurant name
> > > Cuisine - a list of 1 or more cusines, e.g. Italian, Pizza
> > > Features - a list of 1 or more features - Open Late, Take-Out
> > > Tags - a list of 1 or more freeform, open entry tags
> > >
> > > I want the site to allow searches by name e.g. "Jake's Pizza" as well
> as
> > > more general "pizza" and even something like "take-out pizza". I'd
> also
> > > like to handle variations, "takeout" "carryout" and spelling issues.
> > >
> > > I've started with the out of the box text definition and cloned it for
> > > cuisines, features and tags. For name I've left it as a string and
> then
> > > created a copyTo field for the phoentic value of Name. My "text"
> > catch-all
> > > has all the fields copied to it. Finally, I implemented spell check as
> > > well.
> > >
> > > The search seems to work pretty well based on some initial testing but
> I
> > > feel like I'm missing something. I'm curious as to any advice around
> > some
> > > missing features I should be utilizing or steps that I've missed etc...
> > >
> > > The steps I was planning:
> > > - Update the stopwords to contain certain adjectives ("good" "best",
> > etc).
> > > - Create synonyms for features and cuisines
> > >
> > > All thoughts/comments/advice is really appreciated.
> > > Thanks.
> > >
> >
>
Re: solr configuration for local search
Posted by Frank A <fs...@gmail.com>.
Thanks.
Do you have any idea what features they use, specifically thhe types of
tokenizers and analyzers?
Also, do you think they use two separate queries for the business name
versus "you may be looking for"?
Thanks again.
On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 9:36 PM, Avlesh Singh <av...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Frank, w.r.t features you may draw a lot of inspiration from these two
> sites
>
> 1. http://mumbai.burrp.com/
> 2. http://askme.in/
>
> Both these products are Indian local search applications. #1 primarily
> focuses on the eating out domain. All the search/suggest related features
> on
> these sites are powered by Solr. You can take a lot of cues for building
> the
> auto-complete feature, using facets, custom highlighting etc.
>
> Cheers
> Avlesh
> http://webklipper.com
>
> On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 6:08 AM, Frank A <fs...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm playing with SOLR as the search engine for my local search site. I'm
> > primarily focused on restaurants right now. I'm working with the
> following
> > data attributes:
> >
> > Name - Restaurant name
> > Cuisine - a list of 1 or more cusines, e.g. Italian, Pizza
> > Features - a list of 1 or more features - Open Late, Take-Out
> > Tags - a list of 1 or more freeform, open entry tags
> >
> > I want the site to allow searches by name e.g. "Jake's Pizza" as well as
> > more general "pizza" and even something like "take-out pizza". I'd also
> > like to handle variations, "takeout" "carryout" and spelling issues.
> >
> > I've started with the out of the box text definition and cloned it for
> > cuisines, features and tags. For name I've left it as a string and then
> > created a copyTo field for the phoentic value of Name. My "text"
> catch-all
> > has all the fields copied to it. Finally, I implemented spell check as
> > well.
> >
> > The search seems to work pretty well based on some initial testing but I
> > feel like I'm missing something. I'm curious as to any advice around
> some
> > missing features I should be utilizing or steps that I've missed etc...
> >
> > The steps I was planning:
> > - Update the stopwords to contain certain adjectives ("good" "best",
> etc).
> > - Create synonyms for features and cuisines
> >
> > All thoughts/comments/advice is really appreciated.
> > Thanks.
> >
>
Re: solr configuration for local search
Posted by Avlesh Singh <av...@gmail.com>.
Frank, w.r.t features you may draw a lot of inspiration from these two sites
1. http://mumbai.burrp.com/
2. http://askme.in/
Both these products are Indian local search applications. #1 primarily
focuses on the eating out domain. All the search/suggest related features on
these sites are powered by Solr. You can take a lot of cues for building the
auto-complete feature, using facets, custom highlighting etc.
Cheers
Avlesh
http://webklipper.com
On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 6:08 AM, Frank A <fs...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm playing with SOLR as the search engine for my local search site. I'm
> primarily focused on restaurants right now. I'm working with the following
> data attributes:
>
> Name - Restaurant name
> Cuisine - a list of 1 or more cusines, e.g. Italian, Pizza
> Features - a list of 1 or more features - Open Late, Take-Out
> Tags - a list of 1 or more freeform, open entry tags
>
> I want the site to allow searches by name e.g. "Jake's Pizza" as well as
> more general "pizza" and even something like "take-out pizza". I'd also
> like to handle variations, "takeout" "carryout" and spelling issues.
>
> I've started with the out of the box text definition and cloned it for
> cuisines, features and tags. For name I've left it as a string and then
> created a copyTo field for the phoentic value of Name. My "text" catch-all
> has all the fields copied to it. Finally, I implemented spell check as
> well.
>
> The search seems to work pretty well based on some initial testing but I
> feel like I'm missing something. I'm curious as to any advice around some
> missing features I should be utilizing or steps that I've missed etc...
>
> The steps I was planning:
> - Update the stopwords to contain certain adjectives ("good" "best", etc).
> - Create synonyms for features and cuisines
>
> All thoughts/comments/advice is really appreciated.
> Thanks.
>