fts-progressive-relaxation
IN premise
When a multi-term FTS query returns no results, the search engine progressively drops terms until it finds matches or exhausts all subsets.
Summary
When someone searches for multiple words and nothing matches exactly, the system automatically tries simpler versions of the query by removing words one at a time until it finds something relevant. This means users almost always get some results back rather than an empty page, though the matches may be less precise than what they originally asked for.
Details
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