[opencms-dev] Sort search results weighting popularity and age

[Alessandro Magnolo]

On 5/17/06, Jonathan Woods <jonathan.woods at scintillance.com> wrote:
> Nice idea.  I've not done it, but I believe the search engine part would
> best be done by writing your own collector implementation - i.e. a class
> which implements I_CmsResourceCollector and is referred to underneath the
> node /opencms/vfs/resources/collectors in opencms-vfs.xml.

mmmh... Are you sure that I_CmsResourceCollector is used by the search engine?
AFAIK, it is used just to get the complete list of XML resources in a folder.

Instead, I would like to do a free text search in the whole site,
using the lucene index, and then take into account the date/popularity
of file when sorting the results.

I'd like to work on this feature and then release it for inclusion in
OpenCms, but I need some guidance on where I should put the effort.

Is there a separate mailing list for OpenCms developers, where a
discussion on this subject could take place? (here it's mostly user
related questions).

regards,
Alessandro Magnolo

> -----Original Message-----
> From: opencms-dev-bounces at opencms.org
> [mailto:opencms-dev-bounces at opencms.org] On Behalf Of Alessandro Magnolo
> Sent: 17 May 2006 11:04
> To: The OpenCms mailing list
> Subject: [opencms-dev] Sort search results weighting popularity and age
>
> I would like to sort search results in OpenCms weighting the page popularity
> (how many times the page was viewed) and age (how old the content is).
> Has anybody done this before?
>
> In OpenCms we have the publish date, so we know the age.
> Regarding popularity, maybe it's possible to retrieve this information from
> the flex cache... is it?
>
> Then, the next step would be to make the search engine weight in these
> values in the results list (toghether with relevancy as currently defined).
> Any suggestion on how to do it?
>
> regards,
> Alessandro Magnolo
>
> _______________________________________________
> This mail is sent to you from the opencms-dev mailing list To change your
> list options, or to unsubscribe from the list, please visit
> http://lists.opencms.org/mailman/listinfo/opencms-dev
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> This mail is sent to you from the opencms-dev mailing list
> To change your list options, or to unsubscribe from the list, please visit
> http://lists.opencms.org/mailman/listinfo/opencms-dev
>