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Thanks for the detailed feedback! I think most of most of the problems here are because we have a really small index right now. Increasing the number of documents is our top priority. I agree that some kind of feedback when there are no results would be a good idea.

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I actually think it’s probably the algorithm too - if I take one of the search items returned from a search that I know is in the index, but then search for it with slightly different terminology (or a different tense / pluralisation), the same item doesn’t come up.

Ah good point, we haven't done any stemming or anything like that yet.

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