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Impact of word order in two-words search query

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Nemo bis (talkcontribs)

m:Special:Search/engineering reorganization has m:Wikimedia Foundation Engineering reorganization FAQ/en as 1st result, while m:Special:Search/reorganization engineering has it in 24th position, preceded by a bunch of search results which only have "reorganization" in the snippet, while "engineering" doesn't appear at all or is just in a section: see .

I gather that word proximity in the document doesn't matter if the two words were searched in the opposite order as they appear, right? Is this expected? Can it be changed?

Cpiral (talkcontribs)

The proximity in the document doesn't matter unless you put the query words in quotes. Then you can add a proximity variable to that single filter. It works backwards and forwards, but doesn't make the last word proximate to the first. Two search terms with no quotes is two filters, and a bunch of page-ranking rules.

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