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You should reread. The phrasing is:

> Default settings for it include fuzzy matching and returning "relevant" results instead of only exact ones.

Which does not in any way say that it is incapable of literal search, only that it is not the default and that most go for the defaults.

So, better phrased as, “the most widely used search engine, elasticsearch, defaults to fuzzy matching not precise matching”.

Which has the flow on effect of any elasticsearch site effectively being useless or suboptimal for……. searching for something specific.

Put another way, ElasticSearch is the default search and it’s borked search across the entire web.

The phrasing of the original poster was just fine. You misrepresented what they said and now you're trying to backpedal.

Let it go.