There is an attribute in QueryParser that will let you set AND as the default operator.
victor ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dror Matalon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Lucene Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, November 24, 2003 7:33 PM Subject: StandardAnalyzer defaults to OR on query > Hi, > > >From > http://jakarta.apache.org/lucene/docs/queryparsersyntax.html > > The OR operator is the default conjunction operator. This means that > if there is no Boolean operator between two terms, the OR operator is > used. > > So "foo bar" is equivalent to "foo OR bar" and will probably return more > hits than just plain "foo" . > > On the other hand when I go to google and type "foo" i get 4 million > hits, and if I type "foo bar" I get around 1 million hits, which seems > to indicate that it's equivalent to "foo AND bar" . That's my experience > of using google that the more keywords you add, the more specific the > query is, the less documents we get. > > Personally, I don't mind too much, I can add the "AND" when I need them > and Lucene does return the documents that match both terms first. But > I'm worried that it'll confuse some users who are used to the google > approach. > > > Regards, > > Dror > > > > -- > Dror Matalon > Zapatec Inc > 1700 MLK Way > Berkeley, CA 94709 > http://www.fastbuzz.com > http://www.zapatec.com > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
