From Viacheslav Kobylinskyi on 2014-06-11 14:34:28+00:00

Issue version corrected (1.2.2 from 1.2).

From Viacheslav Kobylinskyi on 2014-07-08 12:22:15+00:00

Has anyone else had this issue? Is this a bug, or am i just doing something wrong?

I have this issue for a very long time. From the javascript behind the search it searches the index made by sphinx itself. If there is no entries in the index the search return no results.

I come here from google search this symptom. :) I am seeking a solution, too.

Just to add, hyphentaed words like what-in-the-world aren't indexed either. Search returns nothing for hyphenated searches. I am seeing the same behavior as you for two words.

Also, it seems that the Japanese search does not have a js_stemmer defined, and so doesn't do word separation on the submitted searches...

@shibukawa @shimizukawa Just curious, did the snowballstemmer work improve this? I am trying to understand stemmer limitations to see if switching to PyStemmer from PorterStemmer will improve our results, or if other improvements are required.

• snowballstemmer: stemming algorithm collection (including porter stemmer) for C/Java/JavaScript/Pure Python
• PyStemmer: libsnowball wrapper for Python
• PorterStemmer: One of the algorithms of stemming for English and its Python implementation

snowball stemmer includes two algorithms for English, but Porter stemmer is a default one.
Even if you select PyStemmer, internal logic is as same as PorterStemmer for English.

Two consecutive words seem to work now. However, searching for words with hyphen seems to still be an issue: web-platform-tests/wpt#18943

I found #2818 (from 2016) which claims

Sample regex above allows users to search for strings containing these punctuation characters: \, /, :, ., and -.

@tk0miya would that PR fix the issue with hyphenated words?