Hi - the thing you describe is possible when your set up uses SpanFirstQuery.
But to be sure what's going on you should post the debug output.
-----Original message-----
> From:John Nielsen <j...@mcb.dk>
> Sent: Tuesday 8th April 2014 11:03
> To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org
> Subject: Strange relevance scoring
>
> Hi,
>
> We are seeing a strange phenomenon with our Solr setup which I have been
> unable to answer.
>
> My Google-fu is clearly not up to the task, so I am trying here.
>
> It appears that if i do a freetext search for a single word, say "modellering"
> on a text field, the scoring is massively boosted if the first word of the
> text field is a hit.
>
> For instance if there is only one occurrence of the word "modellering" in
> the text field and that occurrence is the first word of the text, then that
> document gets a higher relevancy than if the word "modelling" occurs 5
> times in the text and the first word of the text is any other word.
>
> Is this normal behavior? Is special attention paid to the first word in a
> text field? I would think that the latter case would get the highest score.
>
>
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