Use the explain function to understand why the query is producing the results you see.
http://lucene.apache.org/core/3_6_0/api/core/org/apache/lucene/search/Searcher.html#explain(org.apache.lucene.search.Query, int) Does your current query return Listing 2 first? That might be because of term frequencies. Which analyzers are you using? http://www.lucidimagination.com/content/scaling-lucene-and-solr#d0e63 Cheers, Ivan On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 12:41 PM, Meeraj Kunnumpurath <meeraj.kunnumpur...@asyska.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I am quite new to Lucene. I am trying to use it to index listings of local > businesses. The index has only one field, that stores the attributes of a > listing as well as email addresses of users who have rated that business. > > For example, > > Listing 1: "XYZ Takeaway London f...@company.com bar...@company.com > f...@company.com" > Listing 2: "ABC Takeaway London f...@company.com bar...@company.com" > > Now when the user does a search with "Takeaway f...@company.com", how do I > get listing 1 to always come before listing 2, because it has the term > f...@company.com appear twice where as listing 2 has it only once? > > Regards > Meeraj --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org