Using boosting with autocomplete

Autocomplete is very good when it comes to our user search experience. It is especially useful for showing users' data that we want to promote or the data that is of value to the users. In general, in e-commerce, the deployment of the autocomplete functionality means more profit. However, there are situations where we want to promote certain products or documents, for example, the currently top-selling books or financial reports, which are the most important ones. This recipe will show you how to boost certain documents when using the n-gram-based autocomplete functionality.

How to do it...

Let's perform the following steps to boost certain documents using the n-gram-based autocomplete function:

  1. We start with creating ...

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