There's actually a Solr JIRA about this: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-2953
But it begs the question of why you want to do this? Are you sure this would actually providing a better experience for your users? The reason I ask is that you could put a lot of effort into making this happen and discover that it was a waste.... IOTW, what's the use case? Best Erick On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 5:57 PM, Ryan Gehring <rgehr...@linkedin.com> wrote: > Hello! > SOLR Newbie here. I managed to pick a use case that is a little goofy for my > first SOLR voyage and would love help. > > I'd like to rank documents by the total matching term count rather than the > usual cosine similarity stuff. > > I have a field named "all" which has all my searchable fields copyfielded to > it.It seems like I need to use SOLR 4.0 and > > _val_:"sum( Termfreq(all, 'term1') , Termfreq(all, 'term2') , … )" > > For every query term. Is there a better way to do this ? > > Thanks! > Ryan Gehring >