It's like cooking. If you put too much salt in your food, it's kind of hard to undo that and you end up with a salty meal. Boosting at search time makes it easy to change boosts (e.g. when trying to find the best boost values), while boosting at index time "hard-codes" them. You can use both and they should be multiplied.
Otis -- Sematext -- http://sematext.com/ -- Lucene - Solr - Nutch ----- Original Message ---- > From: ashokc <ash...@qualcomm.com> > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > Sent: Tuesday, June 9, 2009 6:17:37 PM > Subject: qf boost Versus field boost for Dismax queries > > > When 'dismax' queries are use, where is the best place to apply boost > values/factors? While indexing by supplying the 'boost' attribute to the > field, or in solrconfig.xml by specifying the 'qf' parameter with the same > boosts? What are the advantages/disadvantages to each? What happens if both > boosts are present? Do they get multiplied? > > Thanks > > - ashok > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/qf-boost-Versus-field-boost-for-Dismax-queries-tp23952323p23952323.html > Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
