Jenny, The best thing to do is to use Luke to explain how the query parser is reading your query.
See http://luke.sourceforge.net/ or http://www.getopt.org/luke/ for a download and web start link. And, no, the proximity query should not match if both words are not present. But users are notoriously unreliable witnesses relative to this sort of thing. On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 12:55 PM, Jenny Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > I often have users performing a search like: > > "music arts"~10 OR "band festival" OR "rock concert" > > and then reporting back to me that they'll see results containing just > the word band, or just the word concert, that don't match an entire > phrase. Am I misunderstanding phrase search here? Is the proximity > search changing the behavior of the whole query? > >
