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MomoMoses / portal-specs

tracking specs and functions for portal design and build
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Search as PHRASE #16

Open MomoMoses opened 3 years ago

MomoMoses commented 3 years ago

Adding to the box

Though folks can do the same thing with putting quotes around their search query, I think it's awfully nice to give them a simple checkbox to include all their words as a phrase. Need to check to see if Mark Logic responds to having several words in quotes as an exact phrase search.

This has been implemented in the current BMRC database. A nice checkbox labelled "Search this exact phrase" makes the fulltext search use the whole thing as a keyword. Having one's keywords (intended as a complete entity) sliced and diced and returning a slew of useless results because of this effect is one pain point expressed by users.

MomoMoses commented 3 years ago

Since the search engine/method can reduce much of this pain, we may not need to use the checkbox and search exact phrase function. 3/22: If the search always uses proximity, then results may be equivalent. Need to test to see if results are what we expect.