Thread:Talk:Search/Double quotes no longer result in phrase search./reply (2)

I don't _believe_ I've changed the behavior of cirrus with regards to double quotes on commons. I'm going to be swapping out the component that does the highlighting with another one that is faster. It is currently deployed on test, test2, wikidatatest, and mediawiki.org. It doesn't support limiting the results to matching phrases at the moment but I'm fixing it. What I believe your seeing is that Cirrus's default phrase slop is 1 rather then 0. In other words, one word in between is OK. I'll switch it to 0 this week. You can actually control the slop by putting ~0 after the phrase. So "pacific electric"~0 will get you what you want. It just isn't intuitive and I'll fix that.