Comments on: Fast ESP 5.3 index profile oddities

By: Bala Sankar

Bala Sankar — Tue, 07 Jan 2014 22:44:16 +0000

IDocument doc = DocumentFactory.newDocument(uniqueid);
doc.addElement(DocumentFactory.newInteger(“hwboost”, 25000));

In java api, you can boost the ranking with the above code

By: exstyle

exstyle — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 15:48:25 +0000

Thanks, it seems that I don’t have the latest patch.
Will see if it works better.

By: Marcus Johansson

Marcus Johansson — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 09:41:10 +0000

That sounds like a bug. If you haven’t already, make sure to apply all relevant ESP patches (for this particular problem look for the “adminserver” patches), or contact MS technical support.

By: exstyle

exstyle — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 15:23:39 +0000

Hello,

Yes I’m using importsearchprofile/exportsearchprofile.
I get a MySearchProfile.zip with exportseachprofile. In it I have a file PreviewView.xml which contains some french letters such as é à è ù…
When I try to import it back (with importsearchprofile and without any modification) I have an encoding error :
View validation errors: Fatal : Invalid byte 2 of 3-byte UTF-8 sequence.
I’m sure that it’s a problem with PreviewView because I tried to import it without french letters and it worked.

By: Marcus Johansson

Marcus Johansson — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 15:07:49 +0000

Hi exstyle,

Just to clarify: are you saying the name of your search profile contains a letter with a diacritic? And you’re using the exportsearchprofile / importsearchprofile tools?

By: exstyle

exstyle — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 14:42:03 +0000

ERRATA :

My problem is in the search profile, not in the index profile.

By: exstyle

exstyle — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 14:33:56 +0000

hello,
I have an index Profile with accent character.

I’m using the command to export the indexprofile. Then i’m trying to import the xml that has just been exported, without any modification, thougt i have an error because the file do not match utf-8, ANSI…

I’ve tried to change the file charset, but it still doesn’t work ! Any idea ?

By: Jørn Ellefsen

Jørn Ellefsen — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 05:31:36 +0000

Great work, Hans Terje – the issues you pinpoint will be of great value for our colleagues and other search specialits to save and make it right the first time!

By: Vegard Sandvold

Vegard Sandvold — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 22:45:36 +0000

Hardcore FAST ESP rank-tuning insights. Great way to introduce yourself, Hans Terje :-)

I know from my own experience that hwboost can be activated for empty queries by adding the directive “expandbitvector” to fsearch.addon. By default, empty queries get zero rank.

Hopefully someone will write blog post about the other gory details of the FAST ESP rank model, like freshness boosting and the entire rank computation algorithm itself.