: > [We are most interested in always having "title", "description", and a : > few other : > fields boosted. We have both user queries of phrases/words as well as : > "field-specific" queries (eg: "mediatype:moves AND collection:prelinger") : > so my thought is std might be better than dismax.
it depends ... based on what you've said so far, i would think dismax would work perfectly for you... * put the fields you use and their relative weights in the qf param qf=body^0.5+title^2.0+author^1.5 * put query string you get from the user in the q param q=tracy+pooh * put field constraints on other fields in fq params fq=mediatype:moves&fq=collection:prelinger * put any score boosting clauses in a bq param (or bf if it's a function) bq=promote:yes^3 bf=recip(rord(docDate),1,2,3)^2 -Hoss