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Improving Search Query to Match Multiple Words

TLDR Tim wanted to adjust search for multiple-word values. Jason suggested using double-quotes or adjusting search settings.

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Tim

06:23 PM

I am trying to do a search but want the search to consider two words in the search not just 1. So for instance if I have a dataset that has the names { “name”: “Site 1", “name”: “Site 2", “name”: “Site 3", “name”: “Site 4"} and I search search by names for “Site 12” I want it to not return anything because there is no “Site 12" in the dataset. Right now it is returning them all because “Site” is found in all of the names. Is there any way to adjust the search to find values that basically and words separated by spaces?

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Jason

08:20 PM

You can surround the search term with double-quotes to ensure a strict match

08:20

Jason

08:20 PM

Eg: "Site 12"

Tim

08:21 PM

Is that the only way?

Jason

08:39 PM

You could try setting drop_tokens_threshold: 0, typo_tokens_threshold: 0, prefix: false

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