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

Robert Kaye rob at eorbit.net
Thu Dec 7 23:07:48 UTC 2006


On Dec 7, 2006, at 6:03 AM, Alexander Dupuy wrote:

> Would it be practical to perform both an OR search and an AND  
> search and use those results in a 75%/25% weighted average?  That  
> way the max score if no AND results are present would be 75, not  
> 100, but there would still be some results.

That's plain silly. :-)

I am going to make a generic query argument where you can pass your  
own lucene query to the collection search. This way you can boost  
your terms to do whatever you want to do. I will keep the current AND  
semantics for the default collection queries since these are what  
people tend to expect.

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