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Jayant Kumar
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Jayant Kumar

Jayant Kumar is an experienced software professional with a bachelor of engineering degree in computer science and more than 14 years of experience in architecting and developing large-scale web applications. Jayant is an expert on search technologies and PHP and has been working with Lucene and Solr for more than 11 years now. He is the key person responsible for introducing Lucene as a search engine on www.naukri.com, the most successful job portal in India. Jayant is also the author of the book Apache Solr PHP Integration, Packt Publishing, which has been very successful. Jayant has played many different important roles throughout his career, including software developer, team leader, project manager, and architect, but his primary focus has been on building scalable solutions on the Web. Currently, he is associated with the digital division of HT Media as the chief architect responsible for the job site www.shine.com. Jayant is an avid blogger and his blog can be visited at http://jayant7k.blogspot.in. His LinkedIn profile is available at http://www.linkedin.com/in/jayantkumar.
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Running more like this query using PHP


More like this feature of Solr can be used to construct a query based on the terms within a document. This feature helps us in retrieving documents similar to those in our query results. We have to specify the fields on which the more like this functionality is run. For efficiency purposes, it is recommended that we have termVectors=true for these fields. Let us understand how this functionality works by looking at an example. Suppose we want books that are similar to those appearing in the result. Similarity of books is derived from the author and the series to which they belong. So we would have to tell Solr to get books similar to the currently selected book based on the fields' author and series. Solr (Lucene) internally compares all the tokens within the specified fields in all documents (books in our case) in the index with the fields of the currently selected book. And based on how many tokens are matching, it retrieves the results and ranks...

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Jayant Kumar

Jayant Kumar is an experienced software professional with a bachelor of engineering degree in computer science and more than 14 years of experience in architecting and developing large-scale web applications. Jayant is an expert on search technologies and PHP and has been working with Lucene and Solr for more than 11 years now. He is the key person responsible for introducing Lucene as a search engine on www.naukri.com, the most successful job portal in India. Jayant is also the author of the book Apache Solr PHP Integration, Packt Publishing, which has been very successful. Jayant has played many different important roles throughout his career, including software developer, team leader, project manager, and architect, but his primary focus has been on building scalable solutions on the Web. Currently, he is associated with the digital division of HT Media as the chief architect responsible for the job site www.shine.com. Jayant is an avid blogger and his blog can be visited at http://jayant7k.blogspot.in. His LinkedIn profile is available at http://www.linkedin.com/in/jayantkumar.
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