distance of matches

[Akos Tajti <ak...@gmail.com>]

Dear List,

does the distance of the matches for a multi-term query matter? For example
if I search for "dog cat", which one of the following matches will get
higher rank?

"dog, cat, snake, apple" or "dog, apple, snake, cat"

I expect the second. Am I right?

Thanks in advance,
Ákos Tajti

Re: distance of matches

[Simon Willnauer <si...@googlemail.com>]

Hey,

On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 5:40 PM, Akos Tajti <ak...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear List,
>
> does the distance of the matches for a multi-term query matter? For example
> if I search for "dog cat", which one of the following matches will get
> higher rank?

this depends on the query you are executing. if you use a phrasequery
the first example is likely to be higher ranked. A simple boolean
query might give it the same score depending on the document length,
boosts, frequencies of the query terms etc.


simon
>
> "dog, cat, snake, apple" or "dog, apple, snake, cat"
>
> I expect the second. Am I right?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Ákos Tajti
>

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