Boosting Documents and score calculation

Hello, I ran into some very strange behavior by Lucene 1.9. Boost factor under 1.3 does not effect the result score! I wrote a simple test to isolate the issue: Writing test index Creating 3 documents with same KEY and boosts of default, 1.1, 1.2, and 1.3 public static void writeTestI

Lucene displaying results in the order they were added

Is there a way to update a document in the Index without causing any change to the order in which it comes up in searches? I have a bunch of search results being returned as a result of a query. This is done in order to allow users to "request boost" - they have a drop-down box with options slig