If you boost it high enough it should, but you’re right it’s not guaranteed.
The number is “whatever works”, it’s just a number the score is multiplied
by.
But another, not costly, but guaranteed to work would be have your app
do a real-time get on the ID in parallel with the main query. Real-tim
Thanks Erick.
OR'ing ID:"MOD2012A"^1000 with the original query will not always
guarantee that the record with the matching ID will be the #1 hit on the
list, or will it?
Also, why did you boost by a factor of 1000? I never figured out what the
number means for boosting. I have seen 10, 100
Try something like q=whatever OR q=id:whatever^1000
I’d put it in quotes for the id= clause, and do look at what the parsed
query looks like when you specify &debug=query. The reason I
recommend this is you’ll no doubt try something like
q=id:download MOD2012A manual
witout quotes and be ver
