Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-lucene-java-user-archive@www.apache.org Received: (qmail 43467 invoked from network); 13 Jun 2010 13:39:40 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.apache.org) (140.211.11.3) by 140.211.11.9 with SMTP; 13 Jun 2010 13:39:40 -0000 Received: (qmail 78095 invoked by uid 500); 13 Jun 2010 13:39:38 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-lucene-java-user-archive@lucene.apache.org Received: (qmail 78040 invoked by uid 500); 13 Jun 2010 13:39:37 -0000 Mailing-List: contact java-user-help@lucene.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Id: Reply-To: java-user@lucene.apache.org Delivered-To: mailing list java-user@lucene.apache.org Received: (qmail 78032 invoked by uid 99); 13 Jun 2010 13:39:37 -0000 Received: from nike.apache.org (HELO nike.apache.org) (192.87.106.230) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Sun, 13 Jun 2010 13:39:37 +0000 X-ASF-Spam-Status: No, hits=2.2 required=10.0 tests=FREEMAIL_FROM,HTML_MESSAGE,SPF_PASS,T_TO_NO_BRKTS_FREEMAIL X-Spam-Check-By: apache.org Received-SPF: pass (nike.apache.org: domain of naamakraus@gmail.com designates 74.125.82.48 as permitted sender) Received: from [74.125.82.48] (HELO mail-ww0-f48.google.com) (74.125.82.48) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Sun, 13 Jun 2010 13:39:29 +0000 Received: by wwb13 with SMTP id 13so2056245wwb.35 for ; Sun, 13 Jun 2010 06:39:09 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:mime-version:received:from:date :message-id:subject:to:content-type; bh=Ju8dsJjXvM9adk+I+UCJH7Iw1kW6j0hm6vGB2/VxTYU=; b=Sbdo+aDrsEbRfOk/wqChML5WzSWWcC00pv/BWNq5gLdZLeTpugEIJhjMhhoWo9Rxzc SUeP5GV8nvcsyk1Q+vKsOzJgyR8GNnAe3umf+yTioCDRDVxr/DG71yKnpHg1wJY/hZDC rxNqvGZvTBOsEzf7xRna1obq2YcJOCiRTR1sM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:from:date:message-id:subject:to:content-type; b=BhOvEkBUYx9UmiFeUAINDANlFO1UqZ97MJ2/oUHqfD6NFHDa9swFroQ1R607VgdQOf R9eJ24mz//C5VXKXMQLbbb1ctThIktWbTjz45Il7Tzaw2sbcMNUK9s3+H/m65pCJ3KJs Qx8nPI3S15X77UecQJLCaaApV02+ex73maZpk= Received: by 10.216.176.7 with SMTP id a7mr1191699wem.59.1276436349118; Sun, 13 Jun 2010 06:39:09 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.216.91.11 with HTTP; Sun, 13 Jun 2010 06:38:49 -0700 (PDT) From: Naama Kraus Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2010 16:38:49 +0300 Message-ID: Subject: Scores equality To: java-user@lucene.apache.org Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=0016364178072ae9e70488e97fcf X-Virus-Checked: Checked by ClamAV on apache.org --0016364178072ae9e70488e97fcf Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Hi All, I wanted to ask regarding search results scores equality: In case two documents get an equal score - how does Lucene "break" equality ? I.e. by which criteria one document would be ranked before another ? Random ? Indexing time ? Anything else ? Can I control this one somehow ? (I am using Lucene 3). Thanks for the input, Naama --0016364178072ae9e70488e97fcf--