How exactly does "Enable Full Text Search" work?
Using Jamroom
Strumelia:The help tip for this checkbox in the Search module says:
"Enabling this option will activate a special Full Text search index for modules - a Full Text search can do a better job of finding relevant items when performing a search of textual data."
Sounds swell!- but I'm not sure how this actually translates into reality. I'm not seeing or pinpointing the difference when i'm testing it both on and off.
Can someone give a couple of simple 'real world' scenarios of how searches would work when this "Full text search" option is enabled vs. disabled? That'd help me to understand whether I should have in on or off. Thanks!
So the full text index enables what are called "boolean" searches, which allows you to use AND and OR in your search conditions - i.e.
red AND blue
would find entries that had BOTH "red" and "blue" in them. That will not work with the default search as it would look explicitly for "red AND blue".
It also enables a "rating" on the matched search terms - i.e. it checks on the "density" of the keywords you are looking for, so ideally the most relevant matches are at the very top.
Hope this helps!