I understand that the only way to simulate a negative boost is to positively boost the inverse. I have looked at http://wiki.apache.org/solr/SolrRelevancyFAQ but I think I am missing something on the formatting of my query. I am using:
http://localhost:8983/solr/search?q=dog&bq=(*:* -species:Sheltie)^10000 In this case, I am trying to search for records about "dog" but to put records containing "Sheltie" closer to the bottom as I am not really interested in that. However, the following queries: http://localhost:8983/solr/search?q=dog http://localhost:8983/solr/search?q=dog&bq=(*:* -species:Sheltie)^10000 Return the exact same set of results with a record about a Sheltie as the top result each time. What am I doing incorrectly? bq parameter is specific to dismax query parser. If you want to benefit from bq, you need to use &defType=dismax as well as other dismax's parameters http://wiki.apache.org/solr/DisMaxQParserPlugin
