I’ve noticed that our Omeka site is returning many non-relevant search results. We use the Advanced Search module 3.4.21, Omeka-S v. 4.1.0, theme is Default 1.8.0.
Example:
Our site includes 25 items with “Walnut Street Bridge” in the title - most of these also include the bridge name in the description. Here are the search results when I do a controlled Advanced Search on the title field - these results are as expected.
When I do a general keyword search in the main search field on our site for the phrase Walnut Street Bridge, I get thousands of results, and the first page doesn’t contain any expected/relevant items.
Adding quotation marks around the phrase in the general/keyword search definitely helps, however the first result is not what I would expect based on “relevance” ranking as it’s supposed to be doing. I would expect those items where the phrase appears multiple times (such as in the title and description) to appear first. The item that does appear first - the portrait of Joshua Beck - is a more recently-added item, so I do wonder if the sort setting “Relevance - descending” is actually doing “Date added - descending”.
Is there something I can configure to enable general keyword search results to provide expected, relevant results? Is this a relevance ranking issue? Perhaps it’s using a default operator of “or” and would perform better with “and”?