If you search the mail archives, you'll see this topic discussed at some length. That'll give you a much faster answer...
See http://wiki.apache.org/lucene-java/MailingListArchives On Dec 19, 2007 4:50 AM, prabin meitei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I am trying to retreive documents from an index. Each document has a > date > field and other fields. > while making a seach i want to give some extra boost to the more recent > items (as per the date field) > How can I go about it? > > Thanks in advance > > Prabin >