> query: "San Francisco" "California" +("John Smith" "John Smith
> Manufacturing")
>
> Here the San Fran and CA clauses are optional, and the ("John Smith" OR
> "John Smith Manufacturing") is required.
>Thanks Jake, that works nicely. Now, I would like to know exactly what term was found. For example, if a result comes back from the query above, how do I know whether John Smith was found, or both John Smith and his company, or just John Smith Manufacturing was found? The way I am doing that right now is using a highlighter (which unfortunately breaks up "John Smith" into <b>John</b><b>Smith</b>) and combining the terms that are to be highlighted and keeping track of them so I know they were found. If there was a simple way to just check which part of that query was matched that would be awesome. This is why I was thinking of using the term boosting and using a threshold to say "Well, if the score is above this value, then I can assume that "John Smith" was found, but if the score is under a certain threshold, I can say that only his company was found", without having to use the highlighter and noting when a term I'm looking for is to be highlighted. Is there a solution? Thanks, Max
