Elasticsearch e-commerce: specify first docs (products) for specific keywords

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What is the best way to weight or boost specific documents (in this case my documents are products) so that they appear first for specific keyword searches?

In other words:

if
search term is "widget doodad"
then always show these items first:
"widget doodad #43"
"special widget doodad"
"our private-labeled widget doodad"

I have created a pretty good query for all-around use, but client wants to be able to "force" specific products to show first for a set of his top entered search terms.

I know this is something that relevancy experts bristle at, but hey, this is business! :wink:

2

Have a look at my conditional boost plugin, maybe you can grasp some ideas

3

Thanks Jorg, I'll check it out!

4

Jorg - I want to give this a try but the url to your plugin gives a 404:

http://xbib.org/repository/org/xbib/elasticsearch/plugin/elasticsearch-condboost/2.3.3.1/elasticsearch-condboost-2.3.3.1-plugin.zip

5

Sorry, the correct URL is

http://xbib.org/repository/org/xbib/elasticsearch/plugin/elasticsearch-functionscore-conditionalboost/2.3.3.1/elasticsearch-functionscore-conditionalboost-2.3.3.1-plugin.zip