Hi there, I'm running TS as a gem (1.3.18) against Sphinx 0.9.9 on a Rails 2.3.5 app.
I allow users to type in any search phrase on my site, and I pass their search into :match_mode => :extended. What I'm finding odd is that exact matches on a phrase don't seem to be ranking above records that mention the keywords apart. For example, I search for "foo bar", which is a precise record name in my data, contained in an indexed 'name' field with a field weight of 25. (I have other fields indexed, but with low field weights - either 2 or 1.) Both words are common in my search data. However, the first record returned by TS is "bar something foo something something something". The second record is "something something - bar", which just happens to contain "foo" in its description. The third record is "foo something something", again with "bar" in the description. The record "foo bar" itself is result 18 of 25. If I quote "foo bar" in my search string (i.e. perform a phrase search), the record is the only one returned, as you'd expect, but I'd have thought that, even unquoted, the exact match in a highly weighted field should have been first? I realise I haven't quoted copious lines of code and configuration -- I can do if that would be helpful -- but I wondered if anyone could possibly either: 1) Tell me that my expectations are wrong 2) Give me any pointers for any ways I can troubleshoot this. Many thanks for any advice you may feel able to give! Regards, NeilS. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thinking Sphinx" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/thinking-sphinx?hl=en.
