Samir:
This is a FAQ:
http://lucene.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/faq/faqmanager.cgi?file=chapter.search&toc=faq#q31 which you can get to by going to the main Lucene page, following the
official FAQ link, and looking under "Searching".
Joshua
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On Mon, 8 Jul 2002, Samir Satam wrote:
> Thank you Brandon, That surely is what seems to be happening... Does
> anybody know the algorithm lucene uses to calculate hit score?
>
> thanks again,
> samir
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brandon Jockman [mailto:brandonj@isogen.com]
> Sent: Monday, July 08, 2002 12:18 PM
> To: Lucene Users List
> Subject: Re: LIFO or FIFO??
>
>
> Samir,
>
> I think its more likely that the more recently indexed articles had a higher
> 'score' and thus were displayed first in results. Hits are ranked based on
> an algorithm (see FAQ). You should printout the 'score' for each document
> hit and see that the first results displayed actually had a higher score
> than the older ones. I don't think FIFO/LIFO have anything to do with it...
> Look at the scoring algorithm; then try searching for things that should
> have a higher score in the older documents and see if they come up higher in
> your results.
>
> Hope that helps,
>
> -Brandon
> - brandonj@isogen.com
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Samir Satam" <ssatam@copyright.com>
> To: "Lucene Users List" <lucene-user@jakarta.apache.org>
> Sent: Monday, July 08, 2002 11:03 AM
> Subject: LIFO or FIFO??
>
>
> > Hello,
> > I am new to Lucene, and during my development, I observed that...
> >
> > the articles indexed last were the articles that were returned first, in
> the results. As if the index was a LIFO. Now this is perfectly acceptable as
> long as we need to get the latest documents. (articles on WSJ published
> today were indexed today, nad hence are more recent and more relevant). But
> I also have to index the older articles. So, I have 2 questions...
> > 1. Is my observation correct?
> > 2. I was wondering if anybody had similar problems, and how did they fix
> it?
> >
> >
> > thanks
> > Samir
> >
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