title: solr terms: boosting and dismax?
body: <p>Currently I am learning how <a href="http://lucene.apache.org/solr/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">SOLR</a> works.</p>
  
  <p>Words I usually see are boosting and dismax request handler. What do they mean?</p>
  
  <p>I have googled it but found the explanations difficult to understand.</p>
  
  <p>I also read that the dismax handler could search multiple document fields. What does that mean? Doesn't the standard search handler search in multiple fields when I'm querying?</p>