bq: Which might be the same as saying nothing matched Right, a score of zero for a doc means it didn't match the query.
It can be useful to specify &debug.explainOther can show the scoring for an arbitrary doc, even one with a zero score. https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/solr/Common+Query+Parameters Best, Erick On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 12:53 AM, Tom Chiverton <t...@extravision.com> wrote: > I 'solved' this by removing some of the 'AND' from my full query. AND > should be optional but have no effect if there, right ? But for me it was > forcing the score to 0. > > > Which might be the same as saying nothing matched ? > > > Tom > > On 13/01/17 15:10, Tom Chiverton wrote: > > I have a few hundred documents with title and content fields. > > I want a match in title to trump matches in content. If I search for > "connected vehicle" then a news article that has that in the content > shouldn't be ranked higher than the page with that in the title is > essentially what I want. > > I have tried dismax with qf=title^2 as well as several other variants with > the standard query parser (like q="title:"foo"^2 OR content:"foo") but > documents without the search term in the title still come out before those > with the term in the title when ordered by score. > > Is there something I am missing ? > > From the docs, something like q=title:"connected vehicle"^2 OR > content:"connected vehicle" should have worked ? Even using ^100 didn't > help. > > I tried with the dismax parser using > > "q": "Connected Vehicle", > "defType": "dismax", > "indent": "true", > "qf": "title^2000 content", > "pf": "pf=title^4000 content^2", > "sort": "score desc", > "wt": "json", > but that was not better. if I remove content from pf/qf then documents seem > to rank correctly. > > Example query and results (content omitted) : > <http://pastebin.com/5EhrRJP8>http://pastebin.com/5EhrRJP8 with > managed-schema http://pastebin.com/mdraWQWE > > -- > *Tom Chiverton* > Lead Developer > e: t...@extravision.com > p: 0161 817 2922 > t: @extravision <http://www.twitter.com/extravision> > w: <http://www.extravision.com>www.extravision.com > [image: Extravision - email worth seeing] <http://www.extravision.com/> > Registered in the UK at: 107 Timber Wharf, 33 Worsley Street, Manchester, > M15 4LD. > Company Reg No: 05017214 VAT: GB 824 5386 19 > > This e-mail is intended solely for the person to whom it is addressed and > may contain confidential or privileged information. > Any views or opinions presented in this e-mail are solely of the author > and do not necessarily represent those of Extravision Ltd. > > >
