: It's trivial for the client to normalize if desired - take the top scoring : document, if it's greater than 1.0 then scale all scores based on that.
this is why doclists include the "maxScore" in their output as well, to make it easy to normalize scores even if you are using pagination (or sorting on a field other then score) http://localhost:8983/solr/select/?q=video&fl=id,score&start=1 <result name="response" numFound="3" start="1" maxScore="0.5145902"> <doc> <float name="score">0.39613172</float> <str name="id">EN7800GTX/2DHTV/256M</str> </doc> <doc> <float name="score">0.39613172</float> <str name="id">100-435805</str> </doc> </result> -Hoss
