I've read (correct me if I'm wrong) that a solution to achieve that is overboost all the other fields. but I guess this works easily only if u have few fields indexed ;)
bye 2009/10/15 Simon Wistow <si...@thegestalt.org> > Our index has some items in it which basically contain a title and a > single word body. > > If the user searches for a word in the title (especially if title is of > itself only oen word) then that doc will get scored quite highly, > despite the fact that, in this case, it's not really relevant. > > I've tried something like > > qf=title^2.0 content^0.5 > bf=num_pages > > but that disproportionally boosts long documents to the detriment of > relevancy > > bf=product(num_pages,0.05) > > has no effect but > > bf=product(num_pages,0.06) > > > has a bunch of long documents which don't seem to return any highlighted > fields plus the short document with only the query in the title which is > progress in that it's almost exactly the opposite of what I want. > > Any suggestions? Am I going to need to reindex and add the length in > bytes or characters of the document? > > Simon > > > > >
