: not find it, if there were other words in between (e.g. New Capital Delhi).
then you should use field:"New Delhi"~3 or (+field:New +field:Delhi) what you have now is going to match any docs that have "New" in any of the fields you care about or Delhi in whatever you default search field is. incidently, your use case seems like it *desperately* cries out for you to use the dismax handler... qt=dismax&q=New+Delhi&qf=primary_state^2+primary_country^2+primary_city^3+secondary_state+secondary_country&pf=primary_state^2+primary_country^2+primary_city^3+secondary_state+secondary_country&ps=5&mm=100 http://wiki.apache.org/solr/DisMaxRequestHandler http://lucene.apache.org/solr/api/org/apache/solr/request/DisMaxRequestHandler.html -Hoss
