Hi Boost is used to calculate document (field) score which is used by Lucene in queries to find the best results. It's part of the scoring algorithms.
Digest is used to identify pages (like unique ID) and is used to remove duplicates during the dedup procedure. Best Regards Alexander Aristov 2009/6/16 Fabrice Estiévenart <[email protected]> > Hello, > > How are computed the "boost" and the "digest" fields in a Nutch index ? > What are they precisely using for ? > > I can't find this information, thanks. > > -- > Fabrice Estiévenart, Ingénieur R&D, CETIC > Tél : +32 (0)71/49.07.28 > Web : http://www.cetic.be > >
