I’ve noticed that for some searches, I get no results: [CleanShot 2021-06-28 at 07.00.30@2x] But if I narrow the search, for example to a specific topic, I do get the result I’m looking for: [CleanShot 2021-06-28 at 07.01.06@2x] I initially thought it might have something to do with the accent…

Hi @Nacho_Caballero Can you provide me with a sample text and search term that can reproduce the problem? I can see it in the image but only the excerpt can be seen.

Thanks, Alan. Here are the contents of that specific post: post:46: ¿No lo usamos nunca después de “pensar que” o hay una regla? En efecto, no se usa después del “pienso que” porque lo que estás afirmando que piensas, se trata de una realidad, y no de una posibilidad. Por otro lado, util…

Thanks, Yashi. I assume Discourse uses the default full-text search Postgres algorithm. I think the only way to provide exact matches when using quotes (without stemming and without ignoring stop words) would be using the ‘simple’ dictionary :thinking:

Thankyou, @Nacho_Caballero . I will look over Postgres full text algo.

Is it possible to search for exact match? Example: At the moment, search for “flow” unfortunately returns “flower” as the highest relevance ..

Try searching with quotation marks, e.g. search for “flow” not flow.

How to enforce exact matches when searching?

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Yashi12 (Yashi Agarwal) June 29, 2021, 8:47am 5

@Nacho_Caballero ,Hey can u please let me know currently which search algo is Discourse using, it will help me in looking into the issue.

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