Search is currently broken for finding specific names or people (search is too smart in a bad way?)

[ffeldner]

Search is currently broken for finding specific names or people (search is too smart in a bad way?)

[evilscientress]

We just analyzed the issue a bit more and it seams like the issue lies with the elastic search query.

The query uses a multi_match of type best_fields which doesn't do phrase matching. So it splits the query term at white spaces. The query should rather use the type phrase which would type to match the full name, or a combination of both with phrase matching boosted.

It's debatable though if the search should try to split up the search term at white spaces at all, because it then will return other speakers that for example share the same first name, which is not what the user expects when clicking on a speaker name.

[rofl0r]

The query should rather use the type phrase which would type to match the full name, or a combination of both with phrase matching boosted.

sounds good. maybe this could be changed in this way for some testing ?

It's debatable though if the search should try to split up the search term at white spaces at all

if it is split, it should only return results where all terms match, not any.