Hi, You could require all search terms (using QueryParser.SetDefaultOperator). This would also cause misspelt words to give you empty search results (assuming there's no matching misspelt indexed word in your data).
Another approach would be a faceted search; you could tag your products with "C", "D", "B12" (etc.) and allow the user to apply filtering to the search result. Example: http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=Lucene+in+Action The left column provides easy filtering of the search result. Note that there are filters for different fields (topics, language, condition, ...) and the ability to select several values for a field (topics: internet, networking, programming, ...) You could implement this to allow the end-user to select a product type (pills, drinks) and contents (C, D, B12). This would make it possible to list all drinks containing vitamin C using a few clicks, while at the same time exposing other product types. Selecting only vitamin C would show you available product types, perhaps with a count; Pills (4), Drinks(9). The actual search can be implemented using the IndexSearcher.Search overload which takes a filter. // Simon -----Original Message----- From: Geoff Hingston [mailto:ge...@kupesoftware.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2012 1:31 AM To: lucene-net-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: Querying for Vitamin C Hi All, I have a client who sells Vitamins. How do we make sure that when the user enters the search phrase "Vitamin C Drinks" returns all documents with the phrase "Vitamin C" and drinks and not just Vitamin and Drinks. Thanks, Geoff
