"the" sounds like it might be a stopword. Are you using stopwords in any of your fields covered by the dismax search? But not in some of the other fields covered by dismax? the combination of dismax and stopwords can result in unexpected behavior if you aren't careful.
I wrote about this a bit here, you might find it helpful: http://bibwild.wordpress.com/2010/04/14/solr-stop-wordsdismax-gotcha/ marship wrote: > Hi. All. > I am using solr dismax to search over my books in db. I indexed them all > using solr. > the problem I noticed today is, > Everything start with I want to search for a book " > The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest > " > but nothing is returned. I'm sure I have this book in DB. So I stripped some > keyword and finally I found when I search for "the girl who kicked hornet's > nest" , I got the book. > Then I test more > when I search for "the first world war", solr return the book successfully to > me. > But when I search for "the first world war the", solr returns NOTHING! > > > So strange! > So the issue is, if there are 2 "the" in query keywords, solr/dismax simply > return nothing! > > > Why is this happening? > > > Please help. > Thanks. > Regards. > Scott > > > >
