Boolean operators have no effect?

  • Resolved rodbauer

    (@rodbauer)


    8 years, 5 months ago

    No matter the settings for Relevanssi, I can’t seem to get different results from using Boolean operators.

    seagate AND drive
    and
    seagate OR drive

    return the same number of results, 55.

    seagate by itself returns 57 results and drive by itself returns 278 results.

    Default operator is AND and OR fallback is turned off.

    I am trying to understand these results.

    Thanks.

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  • Plugin Author Mikko Saari

    (@msaari)

    8 years, 5 months ago

    Relevanssi doesn’t support operators like that. seagate AND drive and seagate OR drive are exactly the same search for Relevanssi, as and and or are stopwords.

    If you have AND as the default operator, there’s no way to switch to OR on fly with the free version (Premium supports changing the operator with a query variable).

    If you have OR as the default operator and use Premium, you can use the <code+ and - operator for AND and NOT, respectively. But that’s not available in the free vrsion.

    So, what you’re seeing is AND results, and those seem to work correctly. If you switch the default operator to OR, you should see 278 results for the query seagate drive.

    If you want to give searchers more control over the operators, you need Relevanssi Premium.

    Thread Starter rodbauer

    (@rodbauer)

    8 years, 5 months ago

    Thanks for the explanation.

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