hm I notice that the response of the result is exactly the same for for a search term like form token, and for “form token” .

Hmm, I’m surprised to hear this. To make this easier to debug, could you open the network tab in the browser dev console, then do each search query via the UI, and then look for a request to Typesense (to the multi_search endpoint), right click, copy-as-curl and send me that curl command for both?