Question

I am querying a solr server for locations. Those location documents also have a field “country_code” which contains values like US, GB, DE, …

Under certain circumstances I want to boost results with specific country codes so that I am able to prioritize my results by country.

For example:

?q=york

Let’s say the user is from Great Britain and is searching for York … At the moment he finds some Yorks in the US first, then the one in England.

I want to be able to specify that for this query British results should be on top. I found that this should be possible via dismax and bq, something like that:

?q=york&dismax=true&bq=country_code:GB^20.0

But that doesn’t work as expected, now York from Guatemala (country_code GT) is on top, the GB ones are not to be seen.

Help please 😉

Answer 1

Ok, what I did with dismax in my question is working, I just had the boost value way too low. Changed it from 20 to 20000 and it’s working just fine.