: I have a problem with index time boosting. I created 4 new fields: I think you are missunderstanding the meaning of index time boosting vs query time boosting.
First of all, this is not meaninful syntax in your schema.xml... : <field name="title" type="text_general" indexed="true" stored="true" : multiValued="true" boost="5.0" omitNorms="false"/> ...there is no "boost" property that can be set on a <field/> in your schema.xml. you can set boosts on the field values of individual documents when you index them -- but these boosts should vary per document. It makes almost no sense to use the same index time boost of X for field Y on every document you index, because the relative effect on the query scores would be exactly the same for every document. the goal you are describing sounds exacly like *query* time boosting -- you are quering for a word in multiple fields, and you want matches in some fields (title) to score higher then matches in other fields (text) regardless of document. As otis points out: you can use something like dismax/edismax to cofigure this to happen automaticly, or you can be explicit in your query string with the lucene qparser (ie q=title:messi^5 text:messi^3) -Hoss
