: > (For example, I do "indent=on&fl=title&q=commute" in a wget and grep the : > results : > for <title> and then grep -i for commute, there are 23 hits. But doing : > "&q=title:commute" only returns one of those hits..) : : Indeed--those are different queries. The "fl" parameter controlled : the stored fields returned by Solr; it does not affect which documents : are returned. The first query asks for the titles of all documents : containing the word "commute", the second for all documents with : "commute" in their title.
to clarify: the first query asks for the titles of all documents containing the word "commute" in whatever field your schema.xml lists as the <defaultSearchField> -Hoss