[mb-devel] Is there any more info on the ext:rating returned by the xmlwebservice when you sort for tracks without a Puid

[Robert Kaye]

On Dec 6, 2006, at 3:29 AM, Paul Taylor wrote:

> Robert Kaye wrote:
>>
>> This is the beauty of Lucene -- it doesn't just do exact searches.  
>> It does stemming and similar searches in an effort to find you  
>> relevant results.
>>
> Thanks Robert I will spend some time researching Lucene, but my gut  
> reaction is still the scoring is weighted a bit high, if the  
> parameters do not match exactly (except for case , and punctuation  
> possibly) it seems wierd for it to return 100%.

Actually that's how we designed it. But, you underscore that it works  
differently from what people are expecting, so I reworked these queries
with AND semantics (not OR semantics as we currently have) and things  
work more according to what most people expect.

Try your queries against the staging server and you should see a  
drastic difference.

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