We have been working on creating scoring profiles for our search. We need a way to "bury" or give "negative" boosts to some fields in case of types of scoring function "Magnitude", "Freshness", "Tags". We noticed that we cannot add a negative value for boost. Is there any other way to achieve this kind of behavior (burying results based the field) We cannot use $OrderBy because it takes precedence over the scoring profile.
Please advise. Thanks!
I resolved that scenario by creating negative values (using an INT field) for the field we wanted to bury. That gave us the negative boost we needed.
I used a similar technique for Date "Freshness" too, where we counted the days from some event and the higher the number the less fresh the date is and used a "magnitude" function for it.
Thanks!