[Xapian-discuss] Sorting by relevance and date

[Jim]

Andrew Betts wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm struggling to work out whether Xapian can rank results by both relevance and date, giving extra weight to younger documents.  I found Olly Betts's (no relation that I'm aware of) post about BiasFunctor [1] but nothing since 2004.  Is there a best practice way of doing this?
>
> [1] http://lists.tartarus.org/pipermail/xapian-devel/2004-October/000095.html
>
> Cheers,
>
> Andrew
>
>   
Have a look at this one:

http://lists.xapian.org/pipermail/xapian-discuss/2008-September/005892.html

The entire thread may also be interesting, to a degree.

Jim