Giza.SphinxProtocol.group_by

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group_by(query, group_by)

Allows clustering of results. Details on how this can be helpful (and it can!) are contained in the sphinx documentation: http://sphinxsearch.com/docs/current.html#clustering Clustering results are compatible with AVG, SUMS and such function calls you may be used to from SQL. Use SetSelect in conjunction with Group (not yet supported in this client). Default value is @group desc (simply return results in order of descending weight)