Eu tenho meu pesquisador trabalhando muito bem, no entanto, ele tende a retornar resultados obsoletos. Meu site é muito parecido com o NerdDinner, no qual eventos no passado se tornam irrelevantes.

Atualmente, estou indexando assim
note: meu exemplo está no VB.NET, mas não me importo se exemplos são fornecidos em c #

    Public Function AddIndex(ByVal searchableEvent As [Event]) As Boolean Implements ILuceneService.AddIndex

        Dim writer As New IndexWriter(luceneDirectory, New StandardAnalyzer(), False)

        Dim doc As Document = New Document

        doc.Add(New Field("id", searchableEvent.ID, Field.Store.YES, Field.Index.UN_TOKENIZED))
        doc.Add(New Field("fullText", FullTextBuilder(searchableEvent), Field.Store.YES, Field.Index.TOKENIZED))
        doc.Add(New Field("user", If(searchableEvent.User.UserName = Nothing,
                                     "User" & searchableEvent.User.ID,
                                     searchableEvent.User.UserName),
                                 Field.Store.YES,
                                 Field.Index.TOKENIZED))
        doc.Add(New Field("title", searchableEvent.Title, Field.Store.YES, Field.Index.TOKENIZED))
        doc.Add(New Field("location", searchableEvent.Location.Name, Field.Store.YES, Field.Index.TOKENIZED))
        doc.Add(New Field("date", searchableEvent.EventDate, Field.Store.YES, Field.Index.UN_TOKENIZED))

        writer.AddDocument(doc)

        writer.Optimize()
        writer.Close()
        Return True

    End Function

Observe como eu tenho um índice de "data" que armazena a data do evento.

Minha pesquisa fica assim

''# code omitted
        Dim reader As IndexReader = IndexReader.Open(luceneDirectory)
        Dim searcher As IndexSearcher = New IndexSearcher(reader)
        Dim parser As QueryParser = New QueryParser("fullText", New StandardAnalyzer())
        Dim query As Query = parser.Parse(q.ToLower)

        ''# We're using 10,000 as the maximum number of results to return
        ''# because I have a feeling that we'll never reach that full amount
        ''# anyways.  And if we do, who in their right mind is going to page
        ''# through all of the results?
        Dim topDocs As TopDocs = searcher.Search(query, Nothing, 10000)
        Dim doc As Document = Nothing

        ''# loop through the topDocs and grab the appropriate 10 results based
        ''# on the submitted page number
        While i <= last AndAlso i < topDocs.totalHits
                doc = searcher.Doc(topDocs.scoreDocs(i).doc)
                IDList.Add(doc.[Get]("id"))
                i += 1
        End While
''# code omitted

Eu tentei o seguinte, mas não adiantou (lançou uma NullReferenceException).

        While i <= last AndAlso i < topDocs.totalHits
            If Date.Parse(doc.[Get]("date")) >= Date.Today Then
                doc = searcher.Doc(topDocs.scoreDocs(i).doc)
                IDList.Add(doc.[Get]("id"))
                i += 1
            End If
        End While

Também encontrei a documentação a seguir, mas não posso fazer cara ou coroa
http://lucene.apache.org/java/1_4_3/api/org/apache/lucene/search/DateFilter.html