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Question: are they using "filters" as facets or what FAST called refiners? That's the impression I had on a read through. Endeca (now something inside Oracle) h
by troelsSteegin 4y ago
Question: are they using "filters" as facets or what FAST called refiners? That's the impression I had on a read through. Endeca (now something inside Oracle) had some early success with faceted search for ecommerce.
- danpalmer 4y agoYes I believe some systems call these facets. We did some investigation into faceted search systems, but found that by combining the faceted search in the same process as the free text search, tuning the system would be more complex and it would be possible to result in poor search results often. Essentially we forced all queries to be either only faceted search, or to fall back to full text across descriptions. For our use case, almost all queries could be satisfied by facets, so it didn't make sense to include any non-faceted search results in the results for those queries.