Way to prioritize title field for search results?
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Can we adjust the Lucene search results so that items most likely to be related are shown closer to the top of the results feed - I'm thinking this would involve providing higher weight to results with matches in a page title field vs. Results with matches in a body field.
Update: I've made the changes suggested, and it has helped but my goal is to get anything with a word in the title to come up first before anything that doesn't have the word in it (but maybe in some other field such as the body. This isn't what happens currently even when specifying a very large boost value I get a few items intermixed that don't have the given word in the title. I had to alter the code slightly to get it working without our model, but here's what I have:
public List<CustomSearchResultItem> GetSiteSearchNew(string searchQuery)
{
string indexName = App.Core.Config.SettingsManager.GetSetting("SearchIndexName");
var index = Sitecore.ContentSearch.ContentSearchManager.GetIndex(indexName);
var db = Sitecore.Context.Database;
Sitecore.Diagnostics.Error.AssertNotNull(index,
"There is no " + indexName + " index on the current database (" + db.Name + ")");
using (var context = index.CreateSearchContext())
{
var baseQuery = context.GetQueryable<CustomSearchResultItem>();
var query = PredicateBuilder.True<CustomSearchResultItem>();
if (!string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(searchQuery))
{
// boost specific search matches
//query = query.Or(item => item.Title == searchQuery).Boost(1350);
// optionally, split up query to find matches on each word
foreach (var word in searchQuery.Split(' '))
{
query = query.Or(item => item.Title.Contains(word)).Boost(9350);
}
}
baseQuery = baseQuery.Where(query);
// pagination, etc.
var results = baseQuery.ToList();
return results;
// return results or map to a DTO, etc.
}
}
content-search lucene
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up vote
2
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Can we adjust the Lucene search results so that items most likely to be related are shown closer to the top of the results feed - I'm thinking this would involve providing higher weight to results with matches in a page title field vs. Results with matches in a body field.
Update: I've made the changes suggested, and it has helped but my goal is to get anything with a word in the title to come up first before anything that doesn't have the word in it (but maybe in some other field such as the body. This isn't what happens currently even when specifying a very large boost value I get a few items intermixed that don't have the given word in the title. I had to alter the code slightly to get it working without our model, but here's what I have:
public List<CustomSearchResultItem> GetSiteSearchNew(string searchQuery)
{
string indexName = App.Core.Config.SettingsManager.GetSetting("SearchIndexName");
var index = Sitecore.ContentSearch.ContentSearchManager.GetIndex(indexName);
var db = Sitecore.Context.Database;
Sitecore.Diagnostics.Error.AssertNotNull(index,
"There is no " + indexName + " index on the current database (" + db.Name + ")");
using (var context = index.CreateSearchContext())
{
var baseQuery = context.GetQueryable<CustomSearchResultItem>();
var query = PredicateBuilder.True<CustomSearchResultItem>();
if (!string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(searchQuery))
{
// boost specific search matches
//query = query.Or(item => item.Title == searchQuery).Boost(1350);
// optionally, split up query to find matches on each word
foreach (var word in searchQuery.Split(' '))
{
query = query.Or(item => item.Title.Contains(word)).Boost(9350);
}
}
baseQuery = baseQuery.Where(query);
// pagination, etc.
var results = baseQuery.ToList();
return results;
// return results or map to a DTO, etc.
}
}
content-search lucene
add a comment |
up vote
2
down vote
favorite
up vote
2
down vote
favorite
Can we adjust the Lucene search results so that items most likely to be related are shown closer to the top of the results feed - I'm thinking this would involve providing higher weight to results with matches in a page title field vs. Results with matches in a body field.
Update: I've made the changes suggested, and it has helped but my goal is to get anything with a word in the title to come up first before anything that doesn't have the word in it (but maybe in some other field such as the body. This isn't what happens currently even when specifying a very large boost value I get a few items intermixed that don't have the given word in the title. I had to alter the code slightly to get it working without our model, but here's what I have:
public List<CustomSearchResultItem> GetSiteSearchNew(string searchQuery)
{
string indexName = App.Core.Config.SettingsManager.GetSetting("SearchIndexName");
var index = Sitecore.ContentSearch.ContentSearchManager.GetIndex(indexName);
var db = Sitecore.Context.Database;
Sitecore.Diagnostics.Error.AssertNotNull(index,
"There is no " + indexName + " index on the current database (" + db.Name + ")");
using (var context = index.CreateSearchContext())
{
var baseQuery = context.GetQueryable<CustomSearchResultItem>();
var query = PredicateBuilder.True<CustomSearchResultItem>();
if (!string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(searchQuery))
{
// boost specific search matches
//query = query.Or(item => item.Title == searchQuery).Boost(1350);
// optionally, split up query to find matches on each word
foreach (var word in searchQuery.Split(' '))
{
query = query.Or(item => item.Title.Contains(word)).Boost(9350);
}
}
baseQuery = baseQuery.Where(query);
// pagination, etc.
var results = baseQuery.ToList();
return results;
// return results or map to a DTO, etc.
}
}
content-search lucene
Can we adjust the Lucene search results so that items most likely to be related are shown closer to the top of the results feed - I'm thinking this would involve providing higher weight to results with matches in a page title field vs. Results with matches in a body field.
Update: I've made the changes suggested, and it has helped but my goal is to get anything with a word in the title to come up first before anything that doesn't have the word in it (but maybe in some other field such as the body. This isn't what happens currently even when specifying a very large boost value I get a few items intermixed that don't have the given word in the title. I had to alter the code slightly to get it working without our model, but here's what I have:
public List<CustomSearchResultItem> GetSiteSearchNew(string searchQuery)
{
string indexName = App.Core.Config.SettingsManager.GetSetting("SearchIndexName");
var index = Sitecore.ContentSearch.ContentSearchManager.GetIndex(indexName);
var db = Sitecore.Context.Database;
Sitecore.Diagnostics.Error.AssertNotNull(index,
"There is no " + indexName + " index on the current database (" + db.Name + ")");
using (var context = index.CreateSearchContext())
{
var baseQuery = context.GetQueryable<CustomSearchResultItem>();
var query = PredicateBuilder.True<CustomSearchResultItem>();
if (!string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(searchQuery))
{
// boost specific search matches
//query = query.Or(item => item.Title == searchQuery).Boost(1350);
// optionally, split up query to find matches on each word
foreach (var word in searchQuery.Split(' '))
{
query = query.Or(item => item.Title.Contains(word)).Boost(9350);
}
}
baseQuery = baseQuery.Where(query);
// pagination, etc.
var results = baseQuery.ToList();
return results;
// return results or map to a DTO, etc.
}
}
content-search lucene
content-search lucene
edited Nov 28 at 14:52
asked Nov 21 at 18:50
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There's a bit of plumbing you need in place first. Assuming you're already somewhat familiar with the Content Search API, the core of your question is answered below.
Custom Search Result Item
This is needed in order to access the Title field you are referencing. Example implies a field name of "My Title".
public class CustomSearchResultItem : SearchResultItem
{
[DataMember]
[IndexField("my_title")]
public string Title { get; set; }
}
Search Logic
var index = ContentSearchManager.GetIndex("my index");
using (var context = index.CreateSearchContext())
{
var baseQuery = context.GetQueryable<CustomSearchResultItem>();
var query = PredicateBuilder.True<CustomSearchResultItem>();
if (!string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(searchQuery))
{
// boost specific search matches
query = query.Or(item => item.Title == searchQuery).Boost(50);
// optionally, split up query to find matches on each word
foreach (var word in searchQuery.Split(' '))
{
query = query.Or(item => item.Title.Contains(word));
}
}
baseQuery = baseQuery.Where(query);
// pagination, etc.
var results = baseQuery.GetResults();
// return results or map to a DTO, etc.
}
What you're mainly after is the Boost
feature. My goto boost is typically 50
and seems to work well.
My main rule-of-thumb is to boost results that are an exact match (even on a content field), and then split the query into individual words for additional results.
Assemblies required:
- Sitecore.ContentSearch.dll
- Sitecore.ContentSearch.Linq.dll
1
You beat me to the answer :-)
– Dylan Young
Nov 21 at 19:32
Thanks. When I try this, though, I have a number of complaints from intellisense: containsQuery does not exist in the current context - where is it being defined?
– Levi Wallach
Nov 21 at 20:36
Also query.GetResultss() - 'Expression<Func<SearchHelper.CustomSearchResultItem, bool>>' does not contain a definition for 'GetResults' and no extension method 'GetResults' accepting a first argument of type 'Expression<Func<SearchHelper.CustomSearchResultItem, bool>>' could be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)
– Levi Wallach
Nov 21 at 20:37
1
Just wanted to add that you can not boost wild card queries (aka Contains). So you can never boost the line "query = query.Or(item => item.Title.Contains(word));"
– Chris Auer
Nov 22 at 4:18
1
Took out the comment. Thanks Chris
– jrap
Nov 22 at 12:50
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up vote
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There's a bit of plumbing you need in place first. Assuming you're already somewhat familiar with the Content Search API, the core of your question is answered below.
Custom Search Result Item
This is needed in order to access the Title field you are referencing. Example implies a field name of "My Title".
public class CustomSearchResultItem : SearchResultItem
{
[DataMember]
[IndexField("my_title")]
public string Title { get; set; }
}
Search Logic
var index = ContentSearchManager.GetIndex("my index");
using (var context = index.CreateSearchContext())
{
var baseQuery = context.GetQueryable<CustomSearchResultItem>();
var query = PredicateBuilder.True<CustomSearchResultItem>();
if (!string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(searchQuery))
{
// boost specific search matches
query = query.Or(item => item.Title == searchQuery).Boost(50);
// optionally, split up query to find matches on each word
foreach (var word in searchQuery.Split(' '))
{
query = query.Or(item => item.Title.Contains(word));
}
}
baseQuery = baseQuery.Where(query);
// pagination, etc.
var results = baseQuery.GetResults();
// return results or map to a DTO, etc.
}
What you're mainly after is the Boost
feature. My goto boost is typically 50
and seems to work well.
My main rule-of-thumb is to boost results that are an exact match (even on a content field), and then split the query into individual words for additional results.
Assemblies required:
- Sitecore.ContentSearch.dll
- Sitecore.ContentSearch.Linq.dll
1
You beat me to the answer :-)
– Dylan Young
Nov 21 at 19:32
Thanks. When I try this, though, I have a number of complaints from intellisense: containsQuery does not exist in the current context - where is it being defined?
– Levi Wallach
Nov 21 at 20:36
Also query.GetResultss() - 'Expression<Func<SearchHelper.CustomSearchResultItem, bool>>' does not contain a definition for 'GetResults' and no extension method 'GetResults' accepting a first argument of type 'Expression<Func<SearchHelper.CustomSearchResultItem, bool>>' could be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)
– Levi Wallach
Nov 21 at 20:37
1
Just wanted to add that you can not boost wild card queries (aka Contains). So you can never boost the line "query = query.Or(item => item.Title.Contains(word));"
– Chris Auer
Nov 22 at 4:18
1
Took out the comment. Thanks Chris
– jrap
Nov 22 at 12:50
|
show 6 more comments
up vote
9
down vote
There's a bit of plumbing you need in place first. Assuming you're already somewhat familiar with the Content Search API, the core of your question is answered below.
Custom Search Result Item
This is needed in order to access the Title field you are referencing. Example implies a field name of "My Title".
public class CustomSearchResultItem : SearchResultItem
{
[DataMember]
[IndexField("my_title")]
public string Title { get; set; }
}
Search Logic
var index = ContentSearchManager.GetIndex("my index");
using (var context = index.CreateSearchContext())
{
var baseQuery = context.GetQueryable<CustomSearchResultItem>();
var query = PredicateBuilder.True<CustomSearchResultItem>();
if (!string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(searchQuery))
{
// boost specific search matches
query = query.Or(item => item.Title == searchQuery).Boost(50);
// optionally, split up query to find matches on each word
foreach (var word in searchQuery.Split(' '))
{
query = query.Or(item => item.Title.Contains(word));
}
}
baseQuery = baseQuery.Where(query);
// pagination, etc.
var results = baseQuery.GetResults();
// return results or map to a DTO, etc.
}
What you're mainly after is the Boost
feature. My goto boost is typically 50
and seems to work well.
My main rule-of-thumb is to boost results that are an exact match (even on a content field), and then split the query into individual words for additional results.
Assemblies required:
- Sitecore.ContentSearch.dll
- Sitecore.ContentSearch.Linq.dll
1
You beat me to the answer :-)
– Dylan Young
Nov 21 at 19:32
Thanks. When I try this, though, I have a number of complaints from intellisense: containsQuery does not exist in the current context - where is it being defined?
– Levi Wallach
Nov 21 at 20:36
Also query.GetResultss() - 'Expression<Func<SearchHelper.CustomSearchResultItem, bool>>' does not contain a definition for 'GetResults' and no extension method 'GetResults' accepting a first argument of type 'Expression<Func<SearchHelper.CustomSearchResultItem, bool>>' could be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)
– Levi Wallach
Nov 21 at 20:37
1
Just wanted to add that you can not boost wild card queries (aka Contains). So you can never boost the line "query = query.Or(item => item.Title.Contains(word));"
– Chris Auer
Nov 22 at 4:18
1
Took out the comment. Thanks Chris
– jrap
Nov 22 at 12:50
|
show 6 more comments
up vote
9
down vote
up vote
9
down vote
There's a bit of plumbing you need in place first. Assuming you're already somewhat familiar with the Content Search API, the core of your question is answered below.
Custom Search Result Item
This is needed in order to access the Title field you are referencing. Example implies a field name of "My Title".
public class CustomSearchResultItem : SearchResultItem
{
[DataMember]
[IndexField("my_title")]
public string Title { get; set; }
}
Search Logic
var index = ContentSearchManager.GetIndex("my index");
using (var context = index.CreateSearchContext())
{
var baseQuery = context.GetQueryable<CustomSearchResultItem>();
var query = PredicateBuilder.True<CustomSearchResultItem>();
if (!string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(searchQuery))
{
// boost specific search matches
query = query.Or(item => item.Title == searchQuery).Boost(50);
// optionally, split up query to find matches on each word
foreach (var word in searchQuery.Split(' '))
{
query = query.Or(item => item.Title.Contains(word));
}
}
baseQuery = baseQuery.Where(query);
// pagination, etc.
var results = baseQuery.GetResults();
// return results or map to a DTO, etc.
}
What you're mainly after is the Boost
feature. My goto boost is typically 50
and seems to work well.
My main rule-of-thumb is to boost results that are an exact match (even on a content field), and then split the query into individual words for additional results.
Assemblies required:
- Sitecore.ContentSearch.dll
- Sitecore.ContentSearch.Linq.dll
There's a bit of plumbing you need in place first. Assuming you're already somewhat familiar with the Content Search API, the core of your question is answered below.
Custom Search Result Item
This is needed in order to access the Title field you are referencing. Example implies a field name of "My Title".
public class CustomSearchResultItem : SearchResultItem
{
[DataMember]
[IndexField("my_title")]
public string Title { get; set; }
}
Search Logic
var index = ContentSearchManager.GetIndex("my index");
using (var context = index.CreateSearchContext())
{
var baseQuery = context.GetQueryable<CustomSearchResultItem>();
var query = PredicateBuilder.True<CustomSearchResultItem>();
if (!string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(searchQuery))
{
// boost specific search matches
query = query.Or(item => item.Title == searchQuery).Boost(50);
// optionally, split up query to find matches on each word
foreach (var word in searchQuery.Split(' '))
{
query = query.Or(item => item.Title.Contains(word));
}
}
baseQuery = baseQuery.Where(query);
// pagination, etc.
var results = baseQuery.GetResults();
// return results or map to a DTO, etc.
}
What you're mainly after is the Boost
feature. My goto boost is typically 50
and seems to work well.
My main rule-of-thumb is to boost results that are an exact match (even on a content field), and then split the query into individual words for additional results.
Assemblies required:
- Sitecore.ContentSearch.dll
- Sitecore.ContentSearch.Linq.dll
edited Nov 26 at 19:20
answered Nov 21 at 19:20
jrap
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1
You beat me to the answer :-)
– Dylan Young
Nov 21 at 19:32
Thanks. When I try this, though, I have a number of complaints from intellisense: containsQuery does not exist in the current context - where is it being defined?
– Levi Wallach
Nov 21 at 20:36
Also query.GetResultss() - 'Expression<Func<SearchHelper.CustomSearchResultItem, bool>>' does not contain a definition for 'GetResults' and no extension method 'GetResults' accepting a first argument of type 'Expression<Func<SearchHelper.CustomSearchResultItem, bool>>' could be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)
– Levi Wallach
Nov 21 at 20:37
1
Just wanted to add that you can not boost wild card queries (aka Contains). So you can never boost the line "query = query.Or(item => item.Title.Contains(word));"
– Chris Auer
Nov 22 at 4:18
1
Took out the comment. Thanks Chris
– jrap
Nov 22 at 12:50
|
show 6 more comments
1
You beat me to the answer :-)
– Dylan Young
Nov 21 at 19:32
Thanks. When I try this, though, I have a number of complaints from intellisense: containsQuery does not exist in the current context - where is it being defined?
– Levi Wallach
Nov 21 at 20:36
Also query.GetResultss() - 'Expression<Func<SearchHelper.CustomSearchResultItem, bool>>' does not contain a definition for 'GetResults' and no extension method 'GetResults' accepting a first argument of type 'Expression<Func<SearchHelper.CustomSearchResultItem, bool>>' could be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)
– Levi Wallach
Nov 21 at 20:37
1
Just wanted to add that you can not boost wild card queries (aka Contains). So you can never boost the line "query = query.Or(item => item.Title.Contains(word));"
– Chris Auer
Nov 22 at 4:18
1
Took out the comment. Thanks Chris
– jrap
Nov 22 at 12:50
1
1
You beat me to the answer :-)
– Dylan Young
Nov 21 at 19:32
You beat me to the answer :-)
– Dylan Young
Nov 21 at 19:32
Thanks. When I try this, though, I have a number of complaints from intellisense: containsQuery does not exist in the current context - where is it being defined?
– Levi Wallach
Nov 21 at 20:36
Thanks. When I try this, though, I have a number of complaints from intellisense: containsQuery does not exist in the current context - where is it being defined?
– Levi Wallach
Nov 21 at 20:36
Also query.GetResultss() - 'Expression<Func<SearchHelper.CustomSearchResultItem, bool>>' does not contain a definition for 'GetResults' and no extension method 'GetResults' accepting a first argument of type 'Expression<Func<SearchHelper.CustomSearchResultItem, bool>>' could be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)
– Levi Wallach
Nov 21 at 20:37
Also query.GetResultss() - 'Expression<Func<SearchHelper.CustomSearchResultItem, bool>>' does not contain a definition for 'GetResults' and no extension method 'GetResults' accepting a first argument of type 'Expression<Func<SearchHelper.CustomSearchResultItem, bool>>' could be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)
– Levi Wallach
Nov 21 at 20:37
1
1
Just wanted to add that you can not boost wild card queries (aka Contains). So you can never boost the line "query = query.Or(item => item.Title.Contains(word));"
– Chris Auer
Nov 22 at 4:18
Just wanted to add that you can not boost wild card queries (aka Contains). So you can never boost the line "query = query.Or(item => item.Title.Contains(word));"
– Chris Auer
Nov 22 at 4:18
1
1
Took out the comment. Thanks Chris
– jrap
Nov 22 at 12:50
Took out the comment. Thanks Chris
– jrap
Nov 22 at 12:50
|
show 6 more comments
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