Usually, Use the 'q' parameter to search for the free text values entered by the users (where you might want to parse the query and/or apply boosting/phrase-sloppy, minimum match,tie etc )
Use the 'fq' to limit the searches to certain criterias like location, date-ranges etc. Also, avoid using the q=*:* as it implicitly translates to matchalldocsquery Regds Pravesh -- View this message in context: http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/how-to-make-effective-search-with-fq-and-q-params-tp3527217p3527535.html Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
