Hello,

Was there a "Search As Phrase" option there in older versions?
How could Search as phrase be enabled? The problem is:

"A B Associates" (no matter with quotes, without quotes),

also lists (and highlights) all links where A and B are part of subsctring. if i turn off the substring part from admin, then there are problems related to search results for following search

www.site.tld
site.tld
etc

INTERNAL indexing scheme

Thanks
HyTC
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bool=AND in the search.cgi call?

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Andy (mod)
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bool=and would still not ensure restricting results to what phrase search should give.
What user selects in Advanced Search is always overriden by admin settings

For Example in Advanced Search:

Results Must Contain All Words selected
Find Exact Words Selected

Search for example A B Associates

The search results also contain links with following highlighted (as partial strings is set on on in Admin)

banana

And 9/10 search results links are totally irrelevant to search.

Phrase Search looks to be impossible to me unless i am missing something obvious.

Thanks
HyTC
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Some of the problems may have to do with the indexing scheme.

For instance, using the default "noindex", if I search for a word/phrase "something somethingelse" *BOTH* the searches for "something" and "somethingelse" come up. -- eg: It will find *both* "something somethingelse" and "something-somethingelse" (note the hypenated version).

If you use the MySQL index scheme, and search for "something somethingelse" it will *only* find "something somethingelse" *not* "something-somethingelse". (The hypenated version will *not* show up. )

So, while this is not exactly the issue, it does show that that there are inconsistencies (eg: differences) in how the search "engine" works or returns results. It does show that either parsing of the search query or index fields, or how special characters such as "-" is different depending on indexing scheme when multiple words (a phrase) are used as a query.


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I am using "INTERNAL" inexing scheme. Search results have confused both the end users and the admin alike. Perhaps needs attention in the versions to follow.

Thanks
HyTC
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