Hi,
I have a basic solr installation which store articles (title, description, date)
If I search for golf club and sort it by date I get every articles with golf or club in the title or description.
If I sort it by score I get the one with golf club first.
Is there a way to boost those with golf clubs and then get those with either golf or club sorted by date?
Not really.... You only get one "sort", and normally that is by the relevancy score calculated by Solr. If you use the sort parameter, then it overrides everything else.
I am guessing the reason you are sorting by date is becasue you want newer articles to show up higher. So what you should do is still do a normal query where the order is by score, but use a boost function to boost those with a more recent date. That way, if two articles are the same relevancy, but one is newer then the other, then it will show up first. However, if you have a REALLY relevant article that is older, it will still show up at the top.