Using Phrase Search

Phrase search allows users to specify a literal string to be searched.

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 data files out of word positions. This process 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.
Examples of phrase search queries
You request phrase matching in the Conversation Web Service requests by enclosing a set of one or more search terms in quotation marks.
Performance impact of phrase search
Phrase search queries are generally more expensive to process than normal conjunctive search queries.