Free Text search not working

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Free text search not working properly.

  • Will it be possible to exclude the fields of the schema from free-text search?

  • Free text search not bringing all the items based on keywords. Is there any possibility to get an idea about the indexed fields and their values?

  • [ ] Checked the logs and have uploaded a log file and provided a link because I found something suspicious there. Please do not post the log file in the topic because very often something important is missing.

I’m submitting a…

  • [ ] Regression (a behavior that stopped working in a new release)
  • [ X] Bug report
  • [ ] Performance issue
  • [ ] Documentation issue or request

Current behavior

Expected behavior

Minimal reproduction of the problem

Environment

  • [ ] Self hosted with docker
  • [ ] Self hosted with IIS
  • [ ] Self hosted with other version
  • [ X] Cloud version

Version: [VERSION]

Browser:

  • [ X] Chrome (desktop)
  • [ ] Chrome (Android)
  • [ ] Chrome (iOS)
  • [ ] Firefox
  • [ ] Safari (desktop)
  • [ ] Safari (iOS)
  • [ ] IE
  • [ ] Edge

Others:

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The text search is somehow limited. It works in this way:

  1. All strings from a content item are combined.
  2. The string is tokenized, e.g. “houseboat” becomes “house” + “boat”
    3 .The stop-words are removed from the string.
  3. When searching for “houses”, it is tokenized again to “house” and the result is returned.

There are several limitations to the system:

  1. It does not work well with multiple languages due to a very strange restriction in the database that you have to define the language code for the search query.
  2. it cannot be adapted to the needs of the user.

To make it 100% work for the user requirements you need to give a lot of control to the user.

For example if you have airports like “JFK John F. Kennedy in New York”, you want to tell the search engine that JFK is a term and should not be tokenized and that the weight should be increased. Furthermore you want to use synonyms for some texts.

I cannot provide all these features, if you need more control over the full text search you can use the Algolia integration.