The Freq module provides result scoring based on the frequency of the user’s query terms in the result text. The score produced by the Freq module for a result record is the sum of the frequencies of all user search terms in all fields that match a sufficient number of terms. The number of terms depends on the match mode, such as all terms in a Match All query, a sufficient number of terms in a Match Partial query, and so on. Cross-field match records are assigned a score of zero. Total scores are capped at 1024; in other words, if the sum of frequencies of the user search terms in all matching fields is greater than or equal to 1024, the record gets a score of 1024 from the Freq module.

For example, suppose we have the following record:

{Title="test record", Abstract="this is a test", Text="one test this is"}

A Match All search for test this would cause Freq to assign a score of 4, since this and test occur a total of 4 times in the fields that match all search terms (Abstract and Text, in this case). The number of phrase occurrences does not matter, only the sum of the individual word occurrences. Note that the occurrence of test in the Title field does not contribute to the score, since that field did not match all of the terms.

A Match All search for one record would hit this record, assuming that cross field matching was enabled. The record would get a score of zero from Freq, because no single field matches all of the terms. Freq ignores matches due to query expansion. Such matches are given a rank of zero.