How to boost search based on index type in elasticsearch or lucene?

Question

I have three food type indices \"Italian\", \"Spanish\", \"American\". When the user searches \"Cheese\", documents from \"Italian\" appear to come up at the top. Is it poss

Answer 1

For query-time boosting, queries (ex. query string) generally have a boost attribute you can set. Alternatively, you can wrap queries in a custom boost factor. I would probably prefer the former, usually.