Using Phrase Search

Phrase search allows users to specify a literal string to be searched. This section discusses how to use phrase search.

About phrase search
Phrase search allows users to enter queries for text matching of an ordered sequence of one or more specific words.
About positional indexing
To enable faster phrase search performance and faster relevance ranking with the Phrase module, your project builds index data out of word positions. This is called positional indexing.
How punctuation is handled in phrase search
Unless they are included as special characters, all punctuation characters are stripped out, during both indexing and query processing. When punctuation is stripped out during query processing, the previously connected terms have to remain in their original order.
URL query parameters for phrase search
You can request phrase matching by enclosing a set of one or more search terms in quotation marks (ASCII character decimal 34, or hexadecimal 0x22). You can include phrase search queries in either record search or dimension search operations and combine phrase search with non-phrase search terms or other phrase terms.
Performance impact of phrase search
Phrase search queries are generally more expensive to process than normal conjunctive search queries.