In this chapter we have finally started considering real-world user needs and, most important of all how to start shaping what I like to call a user search experience.

We learned how to write our own update scripts for augmenting results with data from external sites or from others cores also (we saw how to do this in the context of the spatial search, but this technique can be used in several ways). Many of these techniques can be a strategic improvement in our development process, if we will become experts in using the editorial corrections in a correct way for boosting results and suggesting them from a controlled vocabulary.

Finally we have seen in more detail what the usable search components are, how to configure queries for common non-advanced users using Dismax, how to analyze statistical data and debug metadata over a common standard query, and how to provide highlighting that can be used to construct "more like this" presentations.

In the next chapter we will introduce faceting, which can be used in conjunction with all this functionality to extend searches to a wider usage level.