Actually, Google uses OR. The scoring algorithm favors documents that match on more of the ORed terms.

On 4/16/2014 8:17 AM, Min-Uk Kim wrote:
Hello everyone,

I  recently wondered,
why lucene's default conjunction operator is "OR".
Is there a historical reason for that?

By the way,
Google and other search engines seem to use "AND".

Please show me the light.
M



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