Tweaking Apache Solr to get better search results

[juhanurmi]

Apache Solr is a popular, open source enterprise search platform. Its major features include powerful full-text search, hit highlighting, faceted search, and near real-time indexing.

The schema.xml[1] file contains all of the details about which fields your documents can contain, and how those fields should be dealt with when adding documents to the index, or when querying those fields.

Is anyone familiar with Solr and would know how to tweak it for full text search? I would like to see it working even better.

How about using the popularity data in efficient way?

[1] https://github.com/juhanurmi/ahmia/blob/master/solr/schema.xml