How do I create a "More like this" block?

Question

Is there a way to create a "More like this" block with the Views, and the Search API Solr modules?
I saw this, but it doesn't work.

Answer 1

Here is the recipe for search_api_solr as per the OP. Note: both apachesolr and search_api_solr leverage Solr's builtin more like this feature. It is, therefore, not available to normal search.

1. Enable some modules: search_api, search_api_solr, search_api_views
2. Create a Search server of the Solr class.
3. Create a Search index (or use the Default node index) and point your Solr search engine at it.

4. Create a new view on your search index NOT on Search index. eg:

   Show *Default node index* sorted by *unsorted*

5. Continue and edit.

6. Reveal Advanced and Add a Contextual filter.
7. Filter on Search or scroll down to find Search: More like this.
8. Under When the filter is not available select Provide default argument: Content ID from URL.
9. Configure by selecting the Fields for Similarity that you want to determine likeness on.

http://drupal.org/node/1250304#comment-4870278

Answer 2

You don't need anything to create the 'more like this block', just go to admin/structure/block/manage/apachesolr_search/mlt-001/configure.

However, you can follow this tutorial on how to create it with the Views module, but it's based on taxonomy terms.