diff --git a/billion-scale-vector-search/app/src/main/java/ai/vespa/examples/searcher/SPANNSearcher.java b/billion-scale-vector-search/app/src/main/java/ai/vespa/examples/searcher/SPANNSearcher.java
index 7cafa17f6..bc95559c7 100644
--- a/billion-scale-vector-search/app/src/main/java/ai/vespa/examples/searcher/SPANNSearcher.java
+++ b/billion-scale-vector-search/app/src/main/java/ai/vespa/examples/searcher/SPANNSearcher.java
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ public Result search(Query query, Execution execution) {
         }
         query.getModel().getQueryTree().setRoot(dp);
         query.getModel().setSources("if");
-        query.getRanking().setRerankCount(reRankCount);
+        query.getRanking().getSecondPhase().setRerankCount(reRankCount);
         query.getRanking().getMatching().setTermwiselimit(0);
         return mergeResult(execution.search(query), centroidResult);
     }