Optimizing Findability in Lucene and Solr
From the post:
To paraphrase an age-old question about trees falling in the woods: “If content lives in your application and you can’t find it, does it still exist?” In this article, we explore how to make your content findable by presenting tips and techniques for discovering what is important in your content and how to leverage it in the Lucene Stack.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Planning for Findability
Knowing your Content
Knowing your Users
Garbage In, Garbage Out
Analyzing your Analysis
Stemming In Greater Detail
Query Techniques for Better Search
Navigation Hints
Final Thoughts
Resourcesby Grant Ingersoll
You know when a blog post starts off with a table of contents it is long. Fortunately in this case, it is also very good. By one of the principal architects of Lucene, Grant Ingersoll.
A good start on developing findability skills but as the post points out, a lot of it will depend on your knowledge of what “findability” means to your users. Only you can answer that question.