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posted by celestianxSTAFFMOD on October 15, 2012 at 9:28 AM
Hi,
Was the "Search Movie" API function and typed "Scott", it returned me "Robin Hood" which does not contain any "scott" besides the fact that it's Riddley Scott who produced the movie. I don't know if that it normal (the site returns the same results), but shouldn't there by a priority on the movie title instead of the movie directory?
Regards!
Reply by Travis Bell
on October 15, 2012 at 11:16 AM
For non-exact title matches (which is this case) Solr takes the matches and then ordered them by a combination of title match + popularity. In this case, Robin Hood is such a more popular movie than the next hit (Scott Pilgrim) that it's bumping it ahead.
If there was ever a movie called "Scott" it would be first but our database doesn't have anything close.
FYI—It's picking up Robin Hood because of an alternative title: http://www.themoviedb.org/movie/20662-robin-hood/release-info
Reply by celestianx
on October 15, 2012 at 12:13 PM
Ok, thanks for the clarification!