>From Hossman... <<<index time field boosts are a way to express things like "this documents title is worth twice as much as the title of most documents" query time boosts are a way to express "i care about matches on this clause of my query twice as much as i do about matches to other clauses of my query">>>
Search time boosts, as the name implies, factor into the scoring of documents, increasing the score assigned to documents that match on the boosted term, thus tending to score the entire document higher. So these documents tend to be returned earlier in the results when sorting by score (the default). See "Lucene in Action" Best Erick On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 8:12 AM, Tushar_Gandhi < tushar_gan...@neovasolutions.com> wrote: > > Hi, > I want to know about boosting. What is the use ? > How we can implement that? and How it will affect my search results? > > Thanks, > Tushar > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/Boost-function-tp21829651p21829651.html > Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > >
