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OP:

> I built this in about 12 hours as a weekend project, so there might be some lurking issues.

> Yup, exact matching using quotes is on the horizon. Should be available in a few weeks.

> Looks like I’m filtering a little too aggressively which is affecting the results, I’ll take a closer look it in a few hours.



Can someone explain why using quotes is a thing that has to be added? Like, it treats words separately by breaking up the search string into tokens using spaces as a delimiter. Is the OP implementing this himself? I would have imagined there's a standard library for converting search strings into a structured query.




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