diff --git a/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/HitCollector.java b/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/HitCollector.java
index de22ddbca16..c4e1d753107 100644
--- a/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/HitCollector.java
+++ b/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/HitCollector.java
@@ -56,6 +56,7 @@ package org.apache.lucene.search;
 
 /** Lower-level search API.
  * @see Searcher#search(Query,HitCollector)
+ * @version $Id$
  */
 public abstract class HitCollector {
   /** Called once for every non-zero scoring document, with the document number
@@ -77,6 +78,10 @@ public abstract class HitCollector {
    * Searcher#doc(int)} or {@link
    * org.apache.lucene.index.IndexReader#document(int)} on every document
    * number encountered.  Doing so can slow searches by an order of magnitude
-   * or more. */
+   * or more.
+   * <p>Note: The <code>score</code> passed to this method is a raw score.
+   * In other words, the score will not necessarily be a float whose value is
+   * between 0 and 1.
+   */
   public abstract void collect(int doc, float score);
 }
diff --git a/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/Searcher.java b/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/Searcher.java
index 63c5a3333e2..7ff832fe060 100644
--- a/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/Searcher.java
+++ b/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/Searcher.java
@@ -79,7 +79,11 @@ public abstract class Searcher implements Searchable {
    * <p>Applications should only use this if they need <i>all</i> of the
    * matching documents.  The high-level search API ({@link
    * Searcher#search(Query)}) is usually more efficient, as it skips
-   * non-high-scoring hits.  */
+   * non-high-scoring hits.
+   * <p>Note: The <code>score</code> passed to this method is a raw score.
+   * In other words, the score will not necessarily be a float whose value is
+   * between 0 and 1.
+   */
   public void search(Query query, HitCollector results)
     throws IOException {
     search(query, (Filter)null, results);