> What do you mean by "first"? Would you want to process a doc thatdid NOT > have a "Term 3"? > > Let's say you have the following: > doc1: "Term 1" > doc2: "Term 2" > doc3: "Term 1" "Term 2" > doc4: "Term 3" > doc5: "Term 1" "Term 2" "Term 3" > doc6: "Term 2" "Term 3" > > Which docs do you want to get from your search? And does order really > matter?
I would want all of those. What I wouldn't want would be doc7: "Term 3" I rank documents more highly based on how many of these terms they contain. For example, my system ranks doc5 the highest in your example, then doc3, then doc6. I don't need Term 3, but I need to have Term 1 or Term 2 before I go looking for Term 3 to further organize my results. Order doesn't matter, they are put through a separate scoring system. I am really just trying to improve the performance a little bit since "Term 3" will, in my index, hit on far more documents than Term 1 or Term 2, but I only care about the documents where Term 1 or Term 2 were found first. Thanks, Max
