It's hard to google on _val_

So, I've been experimenting to learn how the _val_ participates in scores. It seems to me that http://wiki.apache.org/solr/FunctionQuery should explain the *effect* of including an _val_ term in an ordinary query, starting with a constant. http://wiki.apache.org/solr/SolrRelevancyFAQ#How_can_I_ch

Re: It's hard to google on _val_

On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 11:34 AM, Benson Margulies wrote: > So, I've been experimenting to learn how the _val_ participates in scores. > > It seems to me that http://wiki.apache.org/solr/FunctionQuery should > explain the *effect* of including an _val_ term in an ordinary query, > starting with a

Re: It's hard to google on _val_

On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 12:14 PM, Yonik Seeley wrote: > On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 11:34 AM, Benson Margulies > wrote: >> So, I've been experimenting to learn how the _val_ participates in scores. >> >> It seems to me that http://wiki.apache.org/solr/FunctionQuery should >> explain the *effect* of i

Re: It's hard to google on _val_

On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 12:14 PM, Yonik Seeley wrote: > That's just because Lucene "normalizes" scores.  By default, this is > really just multiplying scores by a magic constant (that by default is > the inverse of the sum of squared weights) Sorry... I missed the square root. Should be "invers