: the scenario, understand this that user runs a search for title which has : pretty common terms such as "how do I update" {all of the words appears : 1000s of times in indexes } and they want to search "prison" the last term : appears not more than 1 or 2 times across the indexes. Now I have the : problem, if I try to run phrase query on this I get zero results and if I
if the word "rpison" doesn't appear anywhere near the words "how do i" then a phrase search on "how do i prison" isn't going to find any documents. perhaps you should search on... +"how do i" +prison ..which will only return docs that match the phrase "how do i" and also contain the word prison. : 0.0 = fieldWeight(subject_t:"how do i prison" in 9268), product of: : 0.0 = tf(phraseFreq=0.0) : 18.508762 = idf(subject_t: how=2225 do=3359 i=4918 prison=4) : 0.5 = fieldNorm(field=subject_t, doc=9268) this would be my point before ... that phrase does not appear in the document (hence the tf is zero) -Hoss