short documents = help me tweak Similarity??

My documents are cars... i.e., Nissan Altima Sports Package Nissan Altima Standard The problem I have is when i search "Nissan Altima", I want to get the 2nd hit back first, i.e. "Nissan Altima Standard", because it is shorter. However, this doesn't happen. They are both scored the exact same.

Re: short documents = help me tweak Similarity??

s) Thanks again, John On 4/2/07, John Kleven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: My documents are cars... i.e., Nissan Altima Sports Package Nissan Altima Standard The problem I have is when i search "Nissan Altima", I want to get the 2nd hit back first, i.e. "Nissan Altima S

Re: short documents = help me tweak Similarity??

Thank you kindly for the responses. This was the solution that I dreamed up initially as well (overriding lengthNorm) and making the returned values for small numTerms values (e.g. 3 and 4) more discrete. So I did that in multiple ways, and I ran into a different problem. If lengthNorm returns