diff --git a/crates/semantic_index/src/project_index.rs b/crates/semantic_index/src/project_index.rs
index 5a88a3aa95..86ee04402a 100644
--- a/crates/semantic_index/src/project_index.rs
+++ b/crates/semantic_index/src/project_index.rs
@@ -359,12 +359,14 @@ impl ProjectIndex {
                                         let bm25_score = {
                                             let corpus_stats =
                                                 worktree_corpus_stats.read().unwrap();
-                                            corpus_stats.calculate_bm25_score(
+                                            let score = corpus_stats.calculate_bm25_score(
                                                 query_term,
                                                 &chunk.term_frequencies.0,
                                                 bm25_params.k1,
                                                 bm25_params.b,
-                                            )
+                                            );
+                                            // quick hack to bound the score for long queries
+                                            score / query_term.values().sum::<u32>() as f32
                                         };
                                         mixing_param * embedding_score
                                             + (1. - mixing_param) * bm25_score
diff --git a/crates/semantic_index/src/tfidf.rs b/crates/semantic_index/src/tfidf.rs
index 13e1876ace..f12527fa3b 100644
--- a/crates/semantic_index/src/tfidf.rs
+++ b/crates/semantic_index/src/tfidf.rs
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ pub trait Bm25Scorer {
                 let numerator = tf * (k1 + 1.0);
                 let denominator = tf + k1 * (1.0 - b + b * dl / avg_dl);
 
-                query_tf as f32 * idf * (numerator / denominator)
+                idf * (numerator / denominator)
             })
             .sum()
     }