From solr-user  Sat Jul 15 18:22:59 2006
From: Brent Verner <brent () rcfile ! org>
Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2006 18:22:59 +0000
To: solr-user
Subject: Re: including "time" as a factor in relevance?
Message-Id: <20060715182259.GA20413 () rcfile ! org>
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[2006-07-15 14:06] WHIRLYCOTT said:
| I need to have my search result relevance influenced by time.  Older  
| things in my index are less relevant than newer things.  I don't want  
| to do a strict sort by date.  Is this supported somehow by using a  
| dismax request handler?  Or if you have other hints, I'm eager to  
| know what they are.

  I've recently used solr's FunctionQuery to do just this with great 
success.  Take a look at FunctionQuery and ReciprocalFloatFunction.
If I have some time later today, I'll put together a simple example.

cheers!
  Brent