Quoting Kevin Walsh <suppressed>:
Dan Bergan <suppressed> wrote:I don't think that's the case with a "phrase search". I can search with swish-e from the command line: swish-e -w word1 word2 -f /path/to/index It will do as you say above - (I do use stemming) - if "word1" and "word2" appear anywhere in the file, that page will show up in the search results. (And, by the same token, if the page contained "word1ing" or "word2s" it will still show up. However, if the command is: swish-e -w \"word1 word2\" -f /path/to/index Then, the only pages that will show up in the results, have the exact phrase "word1 word2". A page that contains "word1 word3 word2" will NOT appear in the results. (I have not yet tested how stemming affects this case). So, if phrase searching was working correctly, the only page that should appear in the results for the search above ("area tag produces") is the Area tag page.My setup is tuned specific to my needs, of course. For instance, the following searches: area and href or: area href will return results that are different from: area or href "and" is the default in my searches, and the [area] tag comes out on top in both cases. I didn't really consider "phrase searching" to be all that useful on the RTFM website, as I find that most searches are looking for keywords anyway. I might change that in RTFMv2 (project starting soon), or I might not. :-) I find that, as long as sufficient keywords are provided, the search results are ordered and highlighted such that the desired page is clearly visible at the top of, or close to the top of, the resultset.
I tend to agree with you about phrase searching... I use it often on Google, but at my sites the number of pages is small enough that the regular searching gets the job done. However, when a client put quotes around a phrase and didn't get the results he expected at his web site, it became a high-priority project! :-)
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