Actually, it looks like I get the same results with or without the quotes. I'm not sure the quotes are enforcing phrase searching.
The results list for either source connectors or "source connectors" is divided into the following sections: Results for: connectors, source Results for: source Results for: connectors Janice On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 8:41 AM, Barton Wright <[email protected]> wrote: > Of course, using quotes around “source connectors” does enforce phrase > searching. But you’re right that having that become more automatic as in > Google searches would be wonderful. > > As I remember DocBook WebHelp ends up with Apache Lucene as its search > engine, and Lucene is quite good. But, alas, the world has gotten very used > to Dr. Google. > > On Nov 10, 2016, at 7:09 AM, Camille Bégnis <[email protected]> wrote: > > We've been facing the issue too, and any tip will be appreciated. > > The issue is that people are used to Google Search, and doing that on the > client side is not easy ;-) > > Cheers, > NeoDoc > Camille Bégnis > Gérant > [email protected] > Tél: 04.42.52.24.20 > http://www.neodoc.fr/ > 789, rue de la gare > F-13770 Venelles > > Le 10/11/2016 à 13:02, Janice Manwiller a écrit : > > I use DocBook source with the docbkx Maven plugin to generate PDFs, > WebHelp, and some HTML. > > The WebHelp search is a source of frustration, mostly because it does not > support phrase searches. So if you search for "source connectors", it looks > for topics that have either the word source or the word connectors. While > topics that contain both words do bubble to the top, the search does not > specifically look for the phrase "source connectors", where both words are > together in that order. > > Has there been any effort to improve the search? Has anyone else > implemented a custom search that supports phrase searches? > > Thanks, > > Janice > > -- > Janice Manwiller > Principal Technical Writer > Sqrrl Data, Inc. > www.sqrrl.com | @SqrrlData > > > > -- Janice Manwiller Principal Technical Writer Sqrrl Data, Inc. www.sqrrl.com | @SqrrlData
