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Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2004 11:11:42 -0400
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From: Don Vaillancourt <donv@webimpact.com>
Subject: Re: boolean operators and score
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I think that the only way to resolve this would be to order your keywords 
alphabetically to control the result every single time prior to submitting 
your search to Lucene.  I don't know if Lucene does this, but I'm fairly 
sure that sorting the criteria would be a complex matter.

At 09:05 AM 07/07/2004, you wrote:
>Hi Guys,
>
>Finally I have sorted the problem of hits score thanks to the great help of
>Franck.
>
>I have hit another problem with the boolean operators now.
>When I search for "Winston and churchill" i get a set of perfectly
>acceptable results.
>But when I change the order, "churchill and winston" the results are the
>same but the order of the results changes.
>
>Is it possible to have the same order (hits.score) irrespective of which
>term is given before or after?
>
>
>Regards,
>Niraj

Don Vaillancourt
Director of Software Development

WEB IMPACT INC.
416-815-2000 ext. 245
email: donv@web-impact.com
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