[Xapian-discuss] Making Title Fields Have More Weight In Xapian Search

[Alexander Lind]

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alec

Benny Chan wrote:
> I feel retarded asking this, but how do I used delve to get that
> information? When I use delve normally, I just get the number of 
> documents
> and the avg length of documents returned.
>
> Benny
>
> On 7/25/07, James Aylett <james-xapian at tartarus.org> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 12:07:40PM -0400, Ryan Mahoney wrote:
>>
>> > I'm also having difficulties applying weights to fields.  Any ideas 
>> why
>> > changing the weight value seems to have little effect on the query
>> results?
>>
>> The general answer to this is, somewhat unfortunately, "because it's a
>> bit complex". You can use delve to check whether the weights are
>> actually different. Trying to construct 'minimal' queries to
>> demonstrate the weight effect sometimes doesn't work, because of other
>> aspects of the ranking algorithm.
>>
>> J
>>
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