Using strict keywords may not return matching titles

anijatsu

Use case:
I'm looking for whether someone's figured out sound equalizer settings for a 2.1 speaker set produced by a company called Microlab, the model being FC300.

The speakers themselves are called in two ways officially - the box and on their back it's "FC330", but the manufacturer's page uses just the spaced: "FC 330" model name.
http://microlab.com/en/catalog/2.1-stereosystem/wired/fc-330/

Using the query:
"microlab" "fc300" speakers equalizer
I get a semi-related result in Polish -- it is about the speakers, but doesn't mention equalization.
Since I don't see any other fitting results, I look into it regardless:

https://forum.pclab.pl/topic/906168-soundblaster-audigy-2-microlab-fc-330-problem-szum-rozwi%C4%85zany/

The result's snippet contains both the correctly spelled model name (FC300) and one that separates the series from the specific model (FC 300):
Microlab FC 330, problem, szum [rozwiązany] - Forum PCLab.pl
Witam posiadam kartę muzyczną CREATIVE SoundBlaster Audigy 2 i głośniki Microlab FC300.

Out of curiosity I try another query, separating the model name:
"microlab" "fc 300" speakers equalizer
but I no longer get this result, just a bunch of SEO-optimized garbage.

Perhaps the search doesn't place primary value on webpage title tags?

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The search engine could recognize that both versions: "fc300" and "fc 300" are about one and the same subject, just misspellings.
Titles should also be matched when it comes to strict keyword searches.

z64

Hi anijatsu ,

To clarify how they currently intended to work, our keyword operators require that all results contain all quoted terms, exactly as written, in at least one of

Title
URL
Snippet

At a glance, all results in your screenshot appear to be respecting this.

The search engine could recognize that both versions: "fc300" and "fc 300" are about one and the same subject, just misspellings.

It is hard to say if we could safely or intelligently implement this. Firstly any kind of "spelling correction" is handled by upstream indexes, so we don't have direct control over it - we would have to engineer our own solution. Secondly, a common use case of the quote operators is to intentionally avoid any kind of spelling correction or fuzzy matching. It would be a difficult needle to thread.

Titles should also be matched when it comes to strict keyword searches.

For this we would probably like to hear some consensus among other users, and some more examples - the filtering can already be quite strict, and requiring a match on the title may end up culling otherwise relevant results.

One way forward might be adding a setting to control exactly how strict it is; so you can pick from the current behavior, or additionally require title matches, etc.

Thanks for reporting your experience - happy to hear any further thoughts.