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This is neat, but it's quietly doing some kind of fuzzy matching with my query.

I actually have no idea what it's really searching for. Only one of the first ten results contains my query. Compare to HN's search which highlights the matched words so it's at least clear when it's going off-script.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

Quotes provide an exact match here, but not on your search engine.

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Yeah I think the bigger issue here is not highlighting the matched text, which makes it look like it's doing something totally random.

There is some typo tolerance, so it's hard to tell exactly what is matching on those pages.

I'm working on adding query operators so you can specify things like exact matching, and in general working on improving the results.

This type of feedback is very helpful, so thank you!

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